Subject: Re: sun4/110: kernel panic during netboot
To: Shaw Terwilliger <sterwill@postman.sourcegear.com>
From: David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 08/19/1999 14:44:08
	Could either of you open a PR on this?
	If youo have a chance you might want to try netbooting a kernel
	from

ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/sparc/snapshot/19990810/binary/kernel/

	to see if the problem is still present...

		David/absolute

     		  -=-  "cold nights, dark days..."  -=-

On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Shaw Terwilliger wrote:

> Studio Associato Eclipse wrote:
> > Hi!
> > I'm trying to revive the sun4/110 i was gifted by a friend of mine...
> 
> I have a Sun 4/110 also, using a bwtwo for display.  I'm booting
> diskless, with tftpd and NFS root.
> 
> > After some black magic experiments (i hadn't configured rpc.bootparamd before,
> > and had no manual with me on holidays), i (almost) succeded in netbooting NetBSD
> > 1.4 from my linux box.
> > Both kernels i have found in the installation directory panic during boot
> > (according to my nfsd, just after having opened and read two 8KB chunck of init)
> > in this way (this log is from netbsd.GENERIC.gz):
> 
> I had the exact same problem... I had tried passing different 
> files for init (like straight to /bin/sh), but had no luck
> getting past that same kernel panic...
> 
> My solution:  downgrade to NetBSD 1.3.1.  It works fine, and I'm
> running the workstation over NFS to a Linux server.
> 
> I've heard 1.4.1 is out, and includes some fixes to the Sun
> MM layer that might fix this error, but until I have time to 
> get that installed, I'll stick with the 1.3 series, which might
> be a bit old, but works.
> 
> -- 
> Shaw Terwilliger
>