Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 22:00:53 -0400 From: "John Barnes" <johnbarnes16@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Ultra 80 Installation problems Message-ID: <BAY106-F28809919AF640144D6694EC23E0@phx.gbl> In-Reply-To: <BAY106-F21CFC77953AD3731FC697BC2390@phx.gbl>
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Well, that was it. I found a suported Frame Buffer and my install went fine. No need to do it from the console port. John >From: "John Barnes" <johnbarnes16@hotmail.com> >To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org >Subject: Ultra 80 Installation problems >Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 10:31:09 -0400 > >Dear List, > >I have a Sun Ultra 80 with 2 CPUs. I burned the ISO disks for 6.1-RELEASE >and tried to boot. The kernel image loaded ok and I got appropriate >information on the console. But when it tried to boot the kernel I got. > >Nothing to autoload >Jumping to kernel 0xc0000006 > >Not perfect on the address, but that is close. > >I was reading in the archives of someone with a similar problem. He was >using and UltraSparc III cpu and that is unsupported. But the first >suggestion was that he install from the console port because there may not >be support for the Framebuffer. > >So, I'm planning to try that. But, I'm wondering if I will be able to boot >to video and keyboard once I install, or if I will always need to use the >console port on this machine. A follow on question is, can I buy another >graphics card that would work for this system on FreeBSD? > >Thanks for any help in this matter. > >John Barnes > > >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-sparc64 >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-sparc64-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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