Subject: Re: Success with 1.5U (was: Re: NetBSD 1.5T test kernel vs. serial ports)
To: None <port-sparc64@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Greg Earle <earle@isolar.DynDNS.ORG>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 04/11/2001 18:49:46
>> You guys rock.  If I could get a 1.5U kernel bound to root on sd0a, swap on
>> sd0b, file system type ffs (vs. generic) - i.e., so it doesn't ask at boot
>> time every time - and with the "hme0: invalid packet size 2048; dropping"
>> error commented out, I'd be a *very* happy camper.
> 
> Hm.  That's not fixed yet?  Damn.  I need to rewrite the bootpath code
> from scratch one of these days.  And I will too, if I ever get another
> machine that has that problem.

What's not fixed yet?  The root/swap/fs questions?  That only seems to
work if I build a custom kernel with them hardwired; all the test GENERIC
kernels always ask.

The "hme0: invalid packet size 2048; dropping" problem, though, is another
kettle of fish.  Right now I'm copying a new /emul/svr4 setup over from
a Solaris 7 system (poll: which is the best Solaris release to use the
libraries from, so that compat_svr4 will work best?  2.6?  7?).  I'm
doing the "tar -cf - | rsh netbsdsystem 'cd /emul/svr4/usr/lib ; tar -xpBf -'"
step now, and I'm getting a GAJILLION of those "invalid packet size" errors.
<Sigh>  I never see them when the Ultra 5+ is booted as a Solaris 7 AutoClient.
I think NetBSD really is seeing them as 2048-byte packets when they're really
not ...

Otherwise, though, I'm a happy camper - if this new /emul/svr4 tree will make
Acrobat Reader 4 for Solaris run without core dumping like it has been, I'll
be even happier  :-)

	- Greg