Subject: Re: cannot boot netbsd, manual install from solaris
To: None <port-sparc@NetBSD.org, port-sparc64@NetBSD.org>
From: Ben Collver <collver@peak.org>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 03/06/2005 10:34:40
On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 10:14:40AM -0800, Ben Collver wrote:
> ok boot disk0:d -V
> Boot device: /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3/disk@0,0:d  File and args: -V
> NetBSD IEEE 1275 Bootblock
> Loading file /ofwboot
> from device /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide#3/disk@0,0:d
> ufs-open complete
> .Looking for ofwboot in directory...
> search-directory: buf-read-file zero len
> Fast Data Access MMU Miss

I booted from the NetBSD 2.0 install CD and dropped to a shell.

# disklabel wd0
type: ESDI
disk: Maxtor 6Y120P0
label: Maxtor 6Y120P0 c
flags:
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 255
tracks/cylinder: 16
sectors/cylinder: 4080
cylinders: 58851
total sectors: 240112080
rpm: 5400
interleave: 1
trackskew: 0
cylinderskew: 0
headswitch: 0		# microseconds
track-to-track seek: 0	# microseconds
drivedata: 0

8 partitions:
#        size    offset     fstype [fsize bsize cpg/sgs]
 a: 118785120   1041640     4.2BSD   1024  8192    16  # (Cyl.    258 - 29371)
 b:   1052640         0       swap                     # (Cyl.      0 -   257)
 c: 240112080         0    unknown                     # (Cyl.      0 - 58850)
 d: 120274320 119837760     4.2BSD   1024  8192    16  # (Cyl.  29372 - 58850)
# mount /dev/wd0d /mnt
# ls /mnt
panic: buf mem pool index 54
kdb breakpoint at 13167cc
Stopped in pid 25.1 (ls) at     0x13167d0:      nop
db> 

It looks as if NetBSD can no longer use filesystems created in Solaris.

Should the sparc64 INSTALL instructions be updated?

Ben