Where are the Sparc64 Installation Boot Floppies? (was - Re: Installation on SUN U10 Continued)

[Marius Strobl]

On Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 04:08:43PM +0000, Robert Slade wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-06-23 at 21:16, Marius Strobl wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 02:33:10PM -0500, Brett D. Estrade wrote:
> Snip
> > 
> > Errata notes for 5.4 are in the works and 6.0 and probably 5.5 should
> > work with the most common graphics chips, especially the onboard ones
> > (see the creator(4) and machfb(4) man pages in -current). 6.1 probably
> > will have some additional drivers for Sun graphics add-on cards.
> > 
> > hrs, how is the errata comming along?
> > 
> > Marius
> > 
> 
> Marius,
> 
> I am (still) having trouble with my U10. I managed to install 5.3
> eventually and I have now updated to 6.0-GENERIC. I have done
> buildworld, and built and installed a Kernel using the GENERIC config
> file as is as this agrees with the errata:
> 
> device          sc
> device          creator
> options         KBD_INSTALL_CDEV
> 
> However, when I reboot, the console gets as far as:
> 
> getty[437]: open /dev/screen : no such file or directory
> getty[438]: open /dev/ttya : no such file or directory
> 
> and then the console freezes - the keyboard does not work and the only
> message is on tty0 when I su to root after a remote SSH logon.
> 

Looks like you missed to update /etc/ttys (i.e. didn't run mergemaster(8)).

> The U10 has a PS2 combined keyboard and mouse. dmesg.boot shows: 
> 

On an U10 this would be a RS232 one.