Subject: Re: Panic on boot?!
To: Bruce Lane <kyrrin@bluefeathertech.com>
From: James Sharp <jsharp@psychoses.org>
List: port-sparc
Date: 03/06/2001 00:23:13
On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Bruce Lane wrote:

> 	The problem: Attempting to boot NetBSD 1.5/SPARC from either CD-ROM or
> floppy, both of which worked just grand with a SPARC LX, results in the
> following error:
>
> 	panic: pmap_bootstrap: no memory?!
>
> 	Halted.
>
> 	In a word: HUH?!?!
>
> 	What gives? I thought 1.5/SPARC was very much ready to go...???
>

Check your memory arrangement.  I can never remember which slots need to
be populated first, but if they're not populated right you'll get this
error.

Try filling the memory slots from the back of the machine forward.