Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 23:40:26 -0400 From: Jake Burkholder <jake@locore.ca> To: Peter Larkowski <peter@larkowski.net> Cc: freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: booting on Ultra AX fail Message-ID: <20021015234026.K25928@locore.ca> In-Reply-To: <3DACD504.6000905@larkowski.net>; from peter@larkowski.net on Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 10:55:00PM -0400 References: <20021015200151.L304@km.ua> <3DACD504.6000905@larkowski.net>
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Apparently, On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 10:55:00PM -0400, Peter Larkowski said words to the effect of; > Hello all: > > When I installed on my Ultra AXe using the april snapshot from > ftp.freebsd.org, it worked just fine, but when I tried the June snapshot > from http://people.freebsd.org/~jake/sparc64/, I had to get a prompt > when it said: "Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for > command prompt". Then I typed "set boot_cdrom=yes" and it worked. > Unless I did this, it dropped me to a mountroot prompt as well. > (Although, as stated earlier, you can just provide the cdrom root > partition at the mountroot prompt.) If you look at the dmesg you'll note that the pci bus isn't attached, and neither are any devices. > > nexus0: <OpenFirmware Nexus device> > > nexus0: <pci>, type pci (no driver attached) > > nexus0: <pci>, type pci (no driver attached) This should look like: nexus0: <OpenFirmware Nexus device> pcib0: <U2P UPA-PCI bridge> on nexus0 pcib0: SUNW,psycho: impl 0, version 4: ign 7c0 initialializing counter-timer ... etc Which is likely something peculiar with the prom properties this machine has so we don't recognize the psycho or probe the pci bus. Also, the machine is an UltraSPARC II, not an UltraSPARC IIi. IIi has a lot more built into the chip and is likely to be more uniform across different implementations (sun vs oem). That's my take anyway, hence the need for prtconf -vp output to see what's going on with the prom properties. Jake To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message
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