Subject: kernel hang with new bootblocks
To: None <port-sparc@netbsd.org>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: port-sparc
Date: 04/21/2003 17:59:45
Hi,
I tried upgrading my ss20 (MP, 2x 390z50) today. I cross-built a distribution,
and installed the new kernel. It hung at boot time (just after the boot
code calls the kernel entry point, before the copyright lines are
printed). So I updated the boot code, just in case. No changes for the
new kernel, but this new code also fails to boot the old kernel.
It prints:
OBP version 3, revision 2.15 (plugin rev 2)
hangs there for a few 10s of seconds, and eventually dies with a watchdog
reset. stop-A doesn't help. boot -d doesn't either.
So I setup netboot from the snapshot:
pub/NetBSD/arch/sparc/snapshot/20030331-1.6Q
netbooting with the boot.net and (UP) kernel from here gives the same
result.

Has anyone else seen this ?

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 24 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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