Re: Netbooting a sparc64

[Chris Ross <cross+netbsd%distal.com@localhost>]

On May 7, 2010, at 3:49 PM, Martin Husemann wrote:
> On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 03:46:45PM -0400, Chris Ross wrote:
>>  Might this be another case of "not waiting long enough for the ethernet to 
>> become sync'd up"?  Does ofwboot do anything that would cause the ethernet 
>> hardware to reset or renegotiate it's link?
> 
> yeah - and you might try a ofwboot from -current, it retries this part
> a few times.

  Ahh, thanks.  That did it.  Using an ofwboot 1.15 worked around this problem:

Executing last command: boot net:dhcp                                 
Boot device: /pci@1f,0/ethernet@c:dhcp  File and args: 
Timeout waiting for BOOTP/DHCP reply. Retrying ... 
Timeout waiting for BOOTP/DHCP reply. Retrying ... 
Timeout waiting for BOOTP/DHCP reply. Retrying ... 
>> NetBSD/sparc64 OpenFirmware Boot, Revision 1.15
bootp: no reply
Using BOOTP protocol:
 ip addr=206.138.151.49
  netmask=255.255.255.0
  gateway=206.138.151.1
  root addr=206.138.151.36
  path=/export/sparc64/nfsroot
=0x859718
Loading netbsd: 7115192+366296+442296 [538536+348822]=0x99e7d0
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    The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.  All rights reserved.
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NetBSD 5.1_RC1 (GENERIC) #0: Thu May  6 08:28:57 EDT 2010
total memory = 640 MB
avail memory = 614 MB
mainbus0 (root): SUNW,UltraAX-i2 (Sun Netra X1): hostid 8305e47a
cpu0 at mainbus0: SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIe @ 500 MHz, UPA id 0
cpu0: 16K instruction (32 b/l), 16K data (32 b/l), 256K external (64 b/l)
psycho0 at mainbus0
psycho0: SUNW,sabre: impl 0, version 0: ign 7c0 bus range 0 to 0; PCI bus 0


  Of course, it seems to have hung here...  :-/  But, a new/different problem 
at least.

                                - Chris