Subject: Re: NetBSD v2.0_RC1, successfully installed on 420R
To: Philip Jensen <phil_jensen@yahoo.com>
From: Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 10/02/2004 01:37:49
On Sat, 2 Oct 2004, Philip Jensen wrote:
> Unfortunately when I went to reboot into the installed OS, the secondary boot 
> loader barfed.  Saying ".... Fast Data MMU Miss".  This is not an uncommon 
> problem, and a number of boot problems on SPARC64 seem to be resolved by 
> updating the OpenBoot PROM.  So a quick check of the version told me it was 
> version 3.23 (or something similar), it was certainly backlevel. 
> After going through the rigmirole of updating the OBP (now it's version 
> 3.31), which required changing a motherboard jumper and the reinstallation of 
> Solaris (In hindsight I suspect putting the flash on to a NetBSD FFSv1 
> filesystem would have been fine too.) I reinstalled NetBSD v2.0_RC1, and this 
> time the first boot of the OS off the internal disks went without a hitch.  I

I'll add a comment in the sparc64 install docs about this, thanks for the 
hint!


  - Hubert

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