From owner-freebsd-sparc Tue Mar 5 8:34:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from k6.locore.ca (k6.locore.ca [198.96.117.170]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3E0A37B402 for ; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 08:34:53 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jake@localhost) by k6.locore.ca (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g25GcMx96926; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 11:38:22 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jake) Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 11:38:22 -0500 From: Jake Burkholder To: Steve Ames Cc: freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Report: the iso disk Message-ID: <20020305113822.A92569@locore.ca> References: <200203050328.g253S2aE009383@virtual-voodoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200203050328.g253S2aE009383@virtual-voodoo.com>; from steve@virtual-voodoo.com on Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 10:28:02PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Apparently, On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 10:28:02PM -0500, Steve Ames said words to the effect of; > > I have an ultra-5 with a 5c keyboard, standard VGA. The ISO CD-ROM > seems to boot fine except I have no keyboard access when it completes. > > If I let it boot all the way to the login prompt, no keyboard. If I > do a 'set boot_single' during the bootup sequence (the keyboard works > fine at this point) and let it continue I lose the keyboard at > 'Enter full pathname of shell....'. I think this is because device sio is compiled into the kernel, which Thomas uses for a serial console on his blade 100. I'll try removing it and plug in a sun kayboard at home, so far everyone that's tried it has used a serial console :) If you can hook up a serial console, that should work. > > This machine does have an ata drive (ST39140A at ata2-master WDMA2... shows > up as ad0). > > Any other data points I can provide? I'd also be interested if someone > could provide a quick primer on netbooting my ultra5 so I don't need > to wait for the next ISO :) There's an install doc which hasn't been committed to the doc tree yet, you can see the html here: http://people.freebsd.org/~tmm/install.html Jake To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message