Re: Problems installing to SparcStation5

[Frank Wißmann <frank.wissmann41%web.de@localhost>]

Manuel Bouyer schrieb:
> 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.
Well, I'll do it by hand :-(.

dmesg says:
sd0 at scsibus0 target 3 lun 0: <Quantum, FB1080J SUN1.05, 6300> disk fixed
sd0:(esp0:0:3:0): not ready, data = 00 00 00 00 04 00 00 00 00 00
sd0: drive offline
sd0: sync (100.00ns offset 8) 8-bit (10.000MB/s) transfers

HTH Frank

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