On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 05:25:03PM +0200, Jaromir Dolecek wrote:

> I'm trying to boot -current NetBSD kernel on Blade workstation. I've
> tried both the CD-ROM iso image
> ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/sparc64/cdimage.iso.gz and
> a netboot using ofwboot.net 1.5 and netbsd.INSTALL-1.5X.debug. I was
> not successful so far, and wonder if there is any hope for me.
> 
> The boot messages are like this:
> 
> loadfile: reading heade
> elf64_exec: Booting /pci@1f,0/network@c,1/netbsd
> 4561216@0x1000000+7316640@0x1800000+1071968@0x1efa4a0
> symbols @ 0xfef62300 74+299064+157490 start=0x1000000
> chain: calling OF_chain(80000m e278, 1000000, fff63a80, 18)
> [ using 457408 bytes of netbsd ELF symbol table ]
> pmap_bootstrap: could not claim physical dseg extension at f776000 size 8a000
> Kernel size exceeds 4MB
> Setting DTLB entry 00000000 01000000 data e0000000 0f800074
> Setting DTLB entry 00000000 01800000 data e0000000 0e400076
> Setting ITLB entry 00000000 01000000 data e0000000 0f800074
> 
> At this place, it simply hangs. I cannot even enter ddb via Stop-A.
> 
> Is there anything I can do to find out why it hangs there? I'd have
> the machine available for tests for quite some more time, so I can
> try test kernels without any problem.

I had this same problem with the 20010821 snapshot on an Ultra-10,
just as Neilson did.

I tried booting using the 20010114 miniroot, which appeared to work,
but then I was greeted with a repeated "init got signal 11". :(

g.