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

[Palle Lyckegaard <palle%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Sat, 24 Oct 2026, Dennis Clarke wrote:

> Just a follow up. The terminal interface is nearly unusable.
> Just horrible. I think my eyes began to bleed.

I have used 'xterm' - that produces nice output.
> So there is the sysinst segfault I was told about.

Yes we have a longstanding issue with user processes crashing under 
certain conditions.
>

> Perhaps the only way forwards is to create a whole disk image elsewhere
> and then somehow present that to the LDOM. Far far more work than should
> be required at this point. Let's just say that something boots and then
> the installer is a horror show and maybe there is a way forwards. Maybe.

Please don't give up :-)

We will eventually track down the issue...

Thanks for trying out on your cool sun4v S7 system :-)