Subject: Re: kernel hang with new bootblocks
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
From: Jim Bernard <jbernard@mines.edu>
List: port-sparc
Date: 04/23/2003 19:04:39
On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 05:59:45PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> 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 ?

  Yes.  See PR 20948.