Let us know if the SMP works.

73 de AI8W, Chris

At 18:32 01-10-04, Philip Jensen wrote:

>Thought members of this mailing list would like to hear a success story 
>installing NetBSD onto a Sun 420R.
>
>I got the ISO image of the SPARC64 port for NetBSD 2.0_RC1 from Karsten's 
>unofficial site.
>
>My first attempt to install went through with no problems, finding all the 
>disks, including the external array (it has a D1000 array connected) no probs.
>Unfortunately when I went to reboot into the installed OS, the secondary 
>boot loader barfed.  Saying ".... Fast Data MMU Miss".  This is not an 
>uncommon problem, and a number of boot problems on SPARC64 seem to be 
>resolved by updating the OpenBoot PROM.  So a quick check of the version 
>told me it was version 3.23 (or something similar), it was certainly 
>backlevel.
>After going through the rigmirole of updating the OBP (now it's version 
>3.31), which required changing a motherboard jumper and the reinstallation 
>of Solaris (In hindsight I suspect putting the flash on to a NetBSD FFSv1 
>filesystem would have been fine too.) I reinstalled NetBSD v2.0_RC1, and 
>this time the first boot of the OS off the internal disks went without a 
>hitch.  I was on the network, and could see all the disks (2 internal, and 
>12 in the external array) in a matter of about 15 minutes from the {ok} 
>boot cdrom command.  In fact the slowest part on a workgroup server is 
>waiting for the memory initialisation during a system reset.
>
>My next task is to compile a Multi-Processor kernel (there wasn't one 
>available on the ISO I downloaded, there doesn't seem to be one at the 
>releng.netbsd.org site either), and see if it spins up all the CPU's.
>
>It's so nice to install an OS and not have to reompile a kernel just to 
>get things like SCSI and network cards working.  We use Debian GNU/Linux 
>on most of production gear (including SPARCs), with the odd NetBSD machine 
>courtesy of yours truly.  Fortunately NetBSD is installed on our core 
>infrastructure routers.
>
>Thanks for listening.
>
>cheers
>Phil J
>

73 de AI8W, Chris

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