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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!howland.erols.net!rill.news.pipex.net!pipex!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-xfer.netaxs.com!netaxs.com!grr From: grr@shandakor.tharsis.com (George Robbins) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: Sparc 1/1+ Net BSD 1.2 - HELP Date: 21 Mar 1997 05:36:56 GMT Organization: George's Pet Unix System Lines: 26 Message-ID: <slrn5j47gu.e57.grr@shandakor.tharsis.com> References: <33320a31.1696611@news.li.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: robbins.jvnc.net X-Newsreader: slrn (0.9.1.1 BETA UNIX) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:5676 In article <33320a31.1696611@news.li.net>, David Hoelzer wrote: >Alrighty.. I'm neither new to the BSD or to the Sparc world.. but I've >got quite an interesting problem here. I started with a Sparc 1 that >we had lying around. It had been ploddingly running Solaris 2.5 for >quite sometime and I wanted to lighten it's load, so netBSD seemed a >likely candidate. I've successfully installed the distribution (more >than once at this point, on more than one drive). The system works >fine WHEN it boots up. Half of the time the machine will get past the >SCSI probe, tell me about the framebuffer and then it dies and starts >looping the monitor prompt at me (Boot, N for new command, etc...). >Any ideas? All I know is that there's something less than reliable around the point of starting up the graphics console with the sparc netbsd and openbsd ports. I've tried both on a Sparc 10 and it dies there every time, but if I boot from a serial console no problem. I'd suggest giving that a try just to see if you're seeing the same flavor of problem. Building a custom kernel didn't help and I'm still working up to a build from -current sources. -- George Robbins - not working for, work: to be avoided at all costs... but still emotionally attached to: web: http://www.netaxs.com/people/grr Commodore, Engineering Department domain: grr@tharsis.com