Subject: Booting NetBSD 1.5.2?
To: port-sparc mailing list <port-sparc@netbsd.org>
From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
List: port-sparc
Date: 11/15/2001 15:35:07
Folks,

	Okay, I've gotten NetBSD 1.5.2 installed on my Twinhead SPARC 
clone (TWINstation 5G, ROM Rev. 2.10, 32 MB memory installed).  I'm 
having some problems with the 4GB disk (QUANTUM, FIREBALL ST4.3S as 
sd0: 4136 MB, 7068 cyl, 6 head, 199 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 8471232 
sectors), so I've installed on the 2GB disk instead (SEAGATE, 
ST32151N as sd1: 2049 MB, 4177 cyl, 8 head, 125 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 
4197914 sectors).

	I used the new experimental installer, and things went pretty 
well.  However, when I go to reboot the machine off the internal 
disk, SILO comes up from a previous Linux installation and it 
promptly fails to find anything remotely Linux-like to boot, so it 
craps out (at which point, sending a "break" signal from my terminal 
program no longer works to drop me back at the OpenBoot PROM monitor, 
and I have to cycle power in order to be able to break out of the 
boot process at an earlier stage).


	Does anyone have any advice on how I can wipe out SILO and 
get this thing to use the NetBSD bootloader?

	If reinstalling is likely to be necessary, does anyone know 
where the tarballs are stored once they are downloaded?  I'd like to 
copy them off onto another machine here at the house, so that I can 
download them from a local machine on re-install, instead of having 
to re-download them across my ISDN line.


	Thanks!

-- 
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be>

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