Re (6): installing NetBSD on a Sparcstation 2.

To: port-sparc%NetBSD.org@localhost
Subject: Re (6): installing NetBSD on a Sparcstation 2.
From: peasthope%shaw.ca@localhost
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 08:54:17 -0700

Dan O. and everyone,

> So, the SS2 is being finicky with booting ...

The earliest documentation of problems installing on 
sun4* that I've found is PR 41194 by Jon Buller.

My difficulty with hdd recognition is just a blunder of 
my own, which can be explained later.

> The SS2 I have is currently running version 2.4 of the PROM firmware.  I am 
> attempting to upgrade this to 2.9, since that seems to be the version best 
> supported by NetBSD and Linux. 

Will be interesting to learn the outcome.

Regards,         ... Peter E.

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