Subject: Re: Problems booting Blade150
To: O.Griener <cc@mspares.net>
From: Andrea Franceschini <andrea.franceschini@postecom.it>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 10/21/2005 10:30:51
On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 08:12:56AM +0000, O.Griener wrote:
> <franceschini_a <at> tiscali.it> writes:
> 
> > 
> > Hi All,
> > 	
> > 	I'm trying to install NetBSD on a SunBlade150 workstation.
> > 
> > 	I tried many different versions up to 2.0.2.
> > 
> > 	I tried netbooting, booting from cd, but any attempt
> > 	has failed.
> > 
> > 	They all stop  when it comes to mount root filesystem.
> > 
> > 	Netboot become deaf to bootparam reply (thus not mounting NFS),
> > 	 while cd simply hangs.
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I had the same problem with my Blade 150. I think it's an ECC problem.
> 
> You get this error message if you have "mixed" or ECC RAM only.
> Obviously NetBSD and FreeBSD kernels have problem with it.
> OpenBSD works though. I replaced my ECC with non-ECC
> and NetBSD-2.0.2/Sparc64 runs on Blade 150 properly.
> 
> Cheers
> 

As soon as I get some non-ECC ram I'll try that, meanwhile ...
Thank You:)