Re: No surprise with the boot process on the SPARC S7-2

To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej%me.com@localhost>
Subject: Re: No surprise with the boot process on the SPARC S7-2
From: Dennis Clarke <dclarke%blastwave.org@localhost>
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2026 13:32:53 -0400

On 10/23/26 12:11, Jason Thorpe wrote:

On Oct 23, 2026, at 8:17 AM, Dennis Clarke <dclarke%blastwave.org@localhost> wrote:

Boot device: /virtual-devices@100/channel-devices@200/disk@1:f  File and args:
WARNING: Unsupported bootblk image, can not extract fcode

WARNING: Bootblk fcode extraction failed


What a weird thing to say..

NetBSD IEEE 1275 Multi-FS Bootblock



..before immediately executing the FCode bootblk.

-- thorpej


Hey ... I saw that ! However given how this hardware is not really
a tested platform for NetBSD it seemed okay to just shrug.

--
--
Dennis Clarke
RISC-V/SPARC/PPC/ARM/CISC
UNIX and Linux spoken

References:
- No surprise with the boot process on the SPARC S7-2
  - From: Dennis Clarke
- Re: No surprise with the boot process on the SPARC S7-2
  - From: Martin Husemann
- Re: No surprise with the boot process on the SPARC S7-2
  - From: Dennis Clarke

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