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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!dog.ee.lbl.gov!horse.ee.lbl.gov!torek From: torek@horse.ee.lbl.gov (Chris Torek) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: 4.4BSD on SPARCstation IPC (Has anyone seen this problem?) Date: 27 Sep 1993 02:52:07 GMT Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley CA Lines: 23 Message-ID: <34206@dog.ee.lbl.gov> References: <ma5la6INNfdn@news.bbn.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.112.15 In article <ma5la6INNfdn@news.bbn.com> uban@bbn.com (Thomas Uban) writes: >cgthree0 at sbus 0 slot 2 offset 0x0: SUNW,501-1718, 1152 x 900 (console) >Type b (boot), c (continue), or n (new command mode) >Type b (boot), c (continue), or n (new command mode) >Type b (boot), c (continue), or n (new command mode) >... FOREVER ... As it turns out, this problem is fixed simply by booting from `new command mode' always. (We never saw it here because we set all our machines to speak forth-boot rather than `old sunmon compat' boot.) Apparently the `interpret forth code' function in the boot prom refuses to run in such cases. On another note: The problem with 4.4BSD on machines with other than 16 MB has now been found (now that we have a 32 MB machine at LBL). Several other less- important (but still significant) bugs have also been fixed. I plan to post patches as soon as I can re-integrate the changes with the official 4.4BSD sources. -- In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Lawrence Berkeley Lab CSE/EE (+1 510 486 5427) Berkeley, CA Domain: torek@ee.lbl.gov