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Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 22:33:50 +0100
From: Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de>
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Subject: Re: Blade 100 w/ 5.4-PRERELEASE console
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On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 01:14:40PM -0800, David O'Brien wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 06:19:35PM +0100, Marius Strobl wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 12:22:14AM -0600, Will Andrews wrote:
> > > mess with the OBP variables.  I believe this is needless pain for
> > > users trying to install FreeBSD on their Blade 100s (and possibly
> > > other models).
> > 
> > No, this is a nit which easily can be worked around. A real pain is
> > that binutils are broken on sparc64 and users have to manually apply
> > a patch to the base src and recompile binutils in order to be able
> > to build a number of ports.
> 
> Applying a patch that is running work around is a nit which can be easily
> worked around.  NOT being able to boot to apply a patch isn't.
>  

I don't get what you try to say with the first sentence but the
work-around to be able to boot was to set both input-device and
output-device to ttya. I suggested you to do just this three
times.