From owner-freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 28 15:14:23 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA22E16A401 for ; Sat, 28 Apr 2007 15:14:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nitro2k01@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.169]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A42D13C43E for ; Sat, 28 Apr 2007 15:14:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nitro2k01@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 71so847539ugh for ; Sat, 28 Apr 2007 08:14:22 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:x-google-sender-auth; b=g4jhLmZdfOciOmNgo9rA5TJKhUl7OqCceZ9z1LtsEKB7fWKa7fLwKne8UzW354tpw0SRBBlJtRYFQ7oPqBzEppW5iX8v401yRCnNlft0rCdia2kOSmkyxXptTjAFfyuHGzG/SUkdbcqz7a56Q0bfxpVWS64h4GN0e0AmO8RcDVs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:x-google-sender-auth; b=tSgrLPHjY8fSKEokXeNEXhgMSkHcWWNp5Qt878dbw3Vk3CuMUr4meZh86V2zzSzOHgVjS7JqvQHgUeqIknxkZcangJ9xbaymFtbPvX7qhMlc1FofVk7USERIC7yyS9titIsyzj/SsVW4NN6BJjZssm6bfF4C2IDbzDCvqPas4oA= Received: by 10.82.150.20 with SMTP id x20mr7933913bud.1177773261693; Sat, 28 Apr 2007 08:14:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.82.141.19 with HTTP; Sat, 28 Apr 2007 08:14:21 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <6d7d37410704280814i1eb053b6x281b714f9a4c3d09@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 17:14:21 +0200 From: "Didrik Madheden" Sender: nitro2k01@gmail.com To: "Miles Nordin" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline X-Google-Sender-Auth: 44655e5083b52901 Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Netbooting Sparc64+HD question (Boot problems resolved without netboot) X-BeenThere: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Sparc List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 15:14:24 -0000 It seems that the original reason why the computer wouldn't boot from CD was probably a combination between a faulty CD drive and a bad CD. I tried both using another drive and burning a new CD, but not in combination AFAICR. It seems as if the drive will actually succeed in booting every 5 times or so. Then my next problem was that I couldn't connect to the FTP sites to start the installation. This probably had to do with port forwarding, which I fixed, but if so it's strange that not even passive ftp worked. It also seemed that the netwrok interface was killed whenever the FTP connection failed so I had to reconnect. (Could no longer resolve host names, and stopped answering ping.) But now I think I got it right, and a netinstall is rolling. With my luck, the installation will probably abort for no reason just when the boot setting are about to be written to the HD, so I have to do everything allover. Then I'll probably find out that my newly bought HD has physical errors. Maybe I'll try on netbooting sometime again when I feel more confident. The bright side of it of course that I have learnt some things about my system. One last question remains though, about my hard drive. I'll just copy it from my last mail. I also saw this message in the boot log: >atapci0: using PIO transfers above 137GB as workaround for 48bit DMA acces= s bug > expect reduced performance This may be a problem since my disk is 400 GB big. Is this bug FBSD specific? Is there a workaround for using DMA without bugs? /Didrik Madheden On 4/28/07, Miles Nordin wrote: > >>>>> "dm" =3D=3D Didrik Madheden writes: > > dm> It actually lets me load a kernel over tftp, > > yes, you can do that, but you should load the kernel over NFS instead. > > dm> but appearantly I had to begin the file path with / for load > dm> but not for more. > > annoying. > > Is there working reverse-lookup for your client on the NFS server (DNS > or in /etc/hosts)? > > What does 'rpcinfo -s' on the server say? > > -----BEGIN 2ROT13 MESSAGE----- Low Bitrate Netlabel: Electronic music forum: S=E4tt p=E5 ett par flipflops, vippa p=E5 rumpan och g=F6r det h=E4r till en minnesv=E4rd sommar! -----END 2ROT13 MESSAGE-----