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Date:      Sat, 20 Jul 2002 16:11:34 +0200
From:      Jesper Skriver <jesper@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Chris Jackman <cjack@klatsch.org>
Cc:        freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Help booting Ultra2 from cdrom
Message-ID:  <20020720141134.GB6568@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020719201437.N20908-100000@whiskey.klatsch.org>
References:  <20020719201437.N20908-100000@whiskey.klatsch.org>

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On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 08:20:51PM -0400, Chris Jackman wrote:
> 
> 
> Hola una vez mas!
> 
> Since I couldn't get my Ultra2 to netboot, I borrowed an external cdrom
> from a friend, and tried the iso.
> 
> It boots, but it can't find a root filesytem, and it only likes one cpu.
> I'm not sure what i'm supposed to use for the device location for the
> cdrom drive, such as ufs:/dev/cd0a.  I don't see it detected in the boot
> messages.

You need

cd9660:/dev/cd0a

Then it boots.

> When I have two cpu's in the box, it panics just after launching the
> second cpu (CPU #1).  Not only does it panic, but it hangs hard.  I'm not
> able to use stop-a or any keyboard combination to give me a db prompt or
> to get an ok prompt.

This I havn't got a clue about.

/Jesper

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