Martin

Thanks for the suggestions. I was using the miniroot.fs onto the swap
partition for the initial boot and then using the CD from thereon.

I'll try again with 1.6 and send on the exact errors I'm getting.

Pete

-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Husemann [mailto:martin@duskware.de] 
Sent: 03 October 2002 09:57
To: Dingwall, Peter
Cc: 'port-sparc64@netbsd.org'
Subject: Re: Installing 1.5.1 on Ultra 2


On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 11:06:59AM +0100, Dingwall, Peter wrote:

> I've been trying to install Netbsd 1.6 on a Sun Ultra2 but gave up 
> after having all manner of problems and resorted to 1.5.1. This 
> actually installed and went through all of the packages and timezone 
> config. However, on reboot i'm not getting very far...

Well, I had no (serious) problem on a U2, except that it dropped me into the
kernel debugger twice and I had to say "cont" to make it continue. After
that I needed to disable tagged queueing on the esp SCSI controller (the esp
driver is seriously broken) by adding "flags 0x00ff0000" to the "esp* at
sbus?" line in the kernel config.

Did you run into anything else? Which boot method did you use? I netbooted
netbsd.INSTALL.gz.

Now to the other questions: I had few problems with installing 1.5.2 too,
but you'll note that there is *no* sparc64 1.5.3 release. This is for a good
reason: the sparc64 support on the 1.5 branch is just not good enough.

So I strongly suggest you try to hash the 1.6 install issues out.

BTW: we hope to have a working sparc64 bootable 1.6 CD image on the ftp
server sometime.

Martin


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