Re: Problems installing to SparcStation5

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 05:51:37PM +0100, Frank Wißmann wrote:
> Hi all!
> I just got back my old SS5 which had NetBSD 1.6 running on it when I  
> gave it away. Now it has no OS on it and I wanted to install NetBSD  
> 5.0.1. However, this is causing trouble as the built-in 1080 MB HD is  
> not recognized by the NetBSD installer. I can go as far as to choose the  
> language, then to install, but then the installation stops with the 
> message:
> "I can not find any hard disks for use by NetBSD. you will be returned  
> to the original menu."
> Pressing "STOP-A" and using the command "probe-scsi-all" does show me  
> the attached SCSI devices, as expected.
> What can be the fault?

Can you collect the boot message of the system and send it there ?
Either cut-n-paste from a serial console, or getting the output of
'dmesg' over the network.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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