Re: Boot NetBSD9.1 on a SUN Blade 100

[Oliver Haak <oliver.haak%posteo.de@localhost>]

Hi John,
 I saw that thread you refer to, but did not consider it being relevant for me. But trying a different version of NetBSD is obviously a good idea, so will do and report back.

Thanks,
Oliver

> Am 14.06.2021 um 19:31 schrieb john%ziaspace.com@localhost:
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>> 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 OpenCSW.org offers a great collection of pre-compiled SW packages, however, these seem to be a little outdated as well, as those for Solaris 9 are no longer updated.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.
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>> Any hints?
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> Not sure how related this is, but there was a thread about boot problems about a year ago here:
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> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-sparc64/2020/06/24/msg002950.html
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> I don't remember what specifically was the issue, but this suggests that it has been addressed:
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> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-sparc64/2020/06/25/msg002974.html
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> However, it might not've gotten in to 9.1. Can you try a 9.2 ISO and see if that works?
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> Thanks,
> John