Re: Re (8?): installing NetBSD on a Sparcstation 2.

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Subject: Re: Re (8?): installing NetBSD on a Sparcstation 2.
From: Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost>
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 17:36:32 +0900

Peter E. wrote:

> From: David Brownlee <abs netbsd.or.>
> Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:18:59 +0100
> > Has anyone had a chance to test Christos's changes yet? Presumably
> > booting the images at
> > http://nyftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/HEAD/201009030000Z/sparc/installation/floppy/
> > should be a sufficient test?
> 
> Yesterday afternoon I tried the 201009090000Z disk1 
> on the SS2 having PROM 2.4.1 and 128 MiB.  It still gives 
> "Data Access Exception".

I tried 201009150000Z disk1 image (gunzipped) on my SS1+ and
it boots fine:
http://www.ceres.dti.ne.jp/tsutsui/netbsd/ss1+_fdboot.jpg
(serial driver chip UC5170 on my SS1+ seems broken)

Probably there is some PROM version specific problem
as we saw around "RAID check on floppy" recently...

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Izumi Tsutsui

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