Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 09:51:35 +0000 From: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> To: Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de> Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: trouble installing to sun blade 1500 Message-ID: <20091203095134.GB9913@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20091202192134.GA6562@alchemy.franken.de> References: <20091201154904.GA11679@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <alpine.LNX.2.00.0912011723060.21559@servww6.ww.uni-erlangen.de> <20091201165752.GA12095@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <20091201215130.GA64974@alchemy.franken.de> <20091202124137.GA20168@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <20091202125915.GA20276@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <20091202192134.GA6562@alchemy.franken.de>
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On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 08:21:34PM +0100, Marius Strobl wrote: > > > > using a serial console)? Can you boot to single user? > > > > > > a multi-user boot dmesg: > > > http://seis.bris.ac.uk/~mexas/dmesg-blade1500-8.0 > > > > > > a single user boot went ok, but some disk problems: > > > http://seis.bris.ac.uk/~mexas/dmesg-blade1500-8.0-single-user > > > > just to add on that. After fixing disk with fsck, boot into single > > user mode is fine, and no further disk problems reported. > > But multi-user mode still panics, just as before. > > > > Hrm, the only noticeable difference between your Blade 1500 > and mine is that on yours the generic vgapci(4) attaches to > the otherwise unsupported framebuffer. I gave such a setup > a try but that didn't trigger a panic (this actually wasn't > likely to). Could you please build and install a debugging > kernel in single user mode (a `mount -a` should re-mount / > read-write), i.e. a kernel with the following options: > makeoptions DEBUG=-g > options KDB > options DDB > If that kernel panics you should end up in the debugger > prompt. Please issue a `bt` there and provide its output. will try Also, I can't seem to be able to bring up the network interface in single user mode. Is it supported? If I do "ifconfig bge0 up", bge0 shows as UP, but ip address is not assigned. Probably means /etc/rc.conf is not read? Finally, should I try 7.2 as well/instead? many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423
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