Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2013 23:46:15 -0400 From: Kurt Lidl <lidl@pix.net> To: Scott Newell <newell+sparc@n5tnl.com> Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: U60 needs two tries to boot 8.3 UFS/ZFS? Message-ID: <20130406034615.GA89319@pix.net> In-Reply-To: <20130406032519.16B7664914@n5tnl.com> References: <20130406021412.C62E864914@n5tnl.com> <20130406030959.GA88847@pix.net> <20130406032519.16B7664914@n5tnl.com>
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On Fri, Apr 05, 2013 at 10:25:16PM -0500, Scott Newell wrote:
> At 10:09 PM 4/5/2013, Kurt Lidl wrote:
>
> >Since it's a new install, you'd probably be better served by trying
> >to get 9.1 running.
>
> I burned 3 cds trying 9.1. None would boot ("no kernel"), so I went
> with 8.3. (I was trying the
> ftp://ftp10.us.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/9.1/FreeBSD-9.1-RELEASE-sparc64-disc1.iso
> image. My MD5 sums matched.)
>
> I'm willing to try 9.1 again, but it'll have to be netboot as I just
> broke (!) the cd-rom drive re-trying the 9.1 install disk.
It looked, from your previous message, like you have a running system
installed onto the first disk (da0) of the machine, and you're
trying to get ZFS installed onto the second disk (da1).
I've posted before with a pointer to the original text file
I created showing how to install a ZFS only sparc64 machine.
http://www.pix.net/ftp/pub/freebsd/sparc_zfs_setup.txt
You could probably take that script and hack it to work to
install 9.1 into the second disk of the machine.
I think you'd only have to set "d0=da1" in that script, and
teach it that the distfiles are not in /usr/freebsd-dist,
and that the loader binaries are not just in the /boot
directory. In other words, it probably wouldn't be too
hard to make it work when doing a cross-install from an
8.x host to a second disk on the same machine.
-Kurt
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