On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 07:28:16PM -0600, Tillman Hodgson wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 06:25:02PM -0600, Tillman Hodgson wrote:
> > `banner` shows that I'm at ROM version 2.7. How does one go about
> > obtaining installing a newer boot ROM?
> 
> Thanks to Mark for sending me some more pointers -- I didn't realize
> that the boot prom is a hardware upgrade rather than a rom image
> upgrade. I think I've got everything figured out now.

I've since obtained and installed a 2.25 boot prom. Wow, is it ever more
verbose when booting!

Anyway, I put the dual Hypersparcs in and it detects them:

           SMCC SPARCstation 10/20 UP/MP POST version VRV3.45 (09/11/95)
CPU_#0       HyperSPARC ROSS RT620/RT625         0x00040000 Bytes ECache
CPU_#2       HyperSPARC ROSS RT620/RT625         0x00040000 Bytes ECache
CPU_#1       ******* NOT installed *******
CPU_#3       ******* NOT installed *******
    <<< CPU_00000000 on MBus Slot_00000000 >>> IS RUNNING (MID = 00000008)
...

And then a whole whack of tests run. However, they never seem to
complete ... after the following messages, I stop getting anything new
out of the serial console:

...
ttya initialized
Cpu #0 Ross,RT625
Cpu #1 Nothing there
Cpu #2 Ross,RT625
Cpu #3 Nothing there
Probing Memory Bank #0 16 Megabytes of DRAM
Probing Memory Bank #1 16 Megabytes of DRAM
Probing Memory Bank #2 16 Megabytes of DRAM
Probing Memory Bank #3 16 Megabytes of DRAM
Probing Memory Bank #4 64 Megabytes of DRAM
Probing Memory Bank #5 Nothing there
Probing Memory Bank #6 Nothing there
Probing Memory Bank #7 Nothing there
Probing /iommu@f,e0000000/sbus@f,e0001000 at f,0  espdma esp sd st ledma le SUNW,bpp SUNW,DBRIe mmcodec
Probing /iommu@f,e0000000/sbus@f,e0001000 at 0,0  Nothing there
Probing /iommu@f,e0000000/sbus@f,e0001000 at 1,0  Nothing there
Probing /iommu@f,e0000000/sbus@f,e0001000 at 2,0  cgsix
Probing /iommu@f,e0000000/sbus@f,e0001000 at 3,0  Nothing there

I have a NetBSD install sitting the SCSI disk with ID 3. Is there
something I need to do to get the box to boot? Does "hanging" at this
point indicate Bad Things?

Thanks for any input,

-T


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