Re: Boot NetBSD9.1 on a SUN Blade 100

[john%ziaspace.com@localhost]

> I recently got my hands on a Sun Blade 100 with Solaris 9 installed. While I 
> was using Solaris during my universiyt times, nowadays it feels a bit 
> awkward, as it seems to be sometimes a bit difficult to adminster. Moreover, 
> there seems to be no up-to-date web-browser available for it. OpenCSW.org 
> offers a great collection of pre-compiled SW packages, however, these seem to 
> be a little outdated as well, as those for Solaris 9 are no longer updated.
> So, a good time to switch over to something different. I'm quite enthusiastic 
> about Linux and aslways wanted to try one of the BSD-flavours. I downloaded 
> the NetBSD-9.1-ISO and burnt it on a CD. While the booting from CDROM seems 
> to work quite ok at first sight, the kernel hangs at "admtemp0: workqueue 
> busy: updates stopped" and I have not the slightest idea, what this could 
> mean. The sensor shwos up earlier in the boot log, but seems to be ok.
>
> Any hints?

Not sure how related this is, but there was a thread about boot problems 
about a year ago here:

http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-sparc64/2020/06/24/msg002950.html

I don't remember what specifically was the issue, but this suggests that 
it has been addressed:

http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-sparc64/2020/06/25/msg002974.html

However, it might not've gotten in to 9.1. Can you try a 9.2 ISO and see 
if that works?

Thanks,
John