Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 17:14:21 +0200 From: "Didrik Madheden" <didrik@kth.se> To: "Miles Nordin" <carton@ivy.net> Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Netbooting Sparc64+HD question (Boot problems resolved without netboot) Message-ID: <6d7d37410704280814i1eb053b6x281b714f9a4c3d09@mail.gmail.com>
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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 <carton@ivy.net> wrote: > >>>>> "dm" =3D=3D Didrik Madheden <didrik@kth.se> 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: <http://f-label.tojt.net/>; Electronic music forum: <http://oxo-unlimited.com/forums>; 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-----
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