sunfire v440

[Riccardo Veraldi]

sorry my stupid question, I ahve always had sun ahrdware with the 
openboot ( OK prompt)
the LOM is another layer before this ?


On 5/20/13 7:29 PM, Jackson Donadel wrote:
>
> I think you need to set boot file during the boot process.
> During the boot I go to the LOM and go to the console then set 
> boot=/boot/kernel. Something like this.
>
> Em 20/05/2013 14:23, "Riccardo Veraldi" <riccardo.veraldi at gmail.com 
> <mailto:riccardo.veraldi at gmail.com>> escreveu:
>
>     I am about to buy a 4 processor ultrsparc IIIi 1,59MHz, do you
>     think FreeBSD 9.1 will have no problem to run ?
>     I mean no problem with 4 CPU number ?
>
>     FreeBSD sparc64 page is telling it is supported...
>     Sun Fire V440 (support for the on-board NICs first appeared in
>     7.3-RELEASE and 8.0-RELEASE)
>
>     my only problem now but it is with all sparc64 architectures is
>     that 9.1 ISO won't boot...
>     cannot find kernel.
>
>
>     On 5/19/13 11:17 PM, Joerg Wunsch wrote:
>
>         As Riccardo Veraldi wrote:
>
>             Looking on FreeBSD site it tells it is supported since
>             FreeBSD 8.0
>             but I ask to someone who is using FreeBSD on his V440 to
>             confirm me
>             it's working.
>
>         I recently got a SunFire V210 which should be fairly similar
>         to yours.
>         It's working fine.  (I've got a single CPU only though.)
>
>         I tried to make it less noisy, with moderate success.  The
>         trickiest
>         part was to have the power supply accept a lower speed fan,
>         because
>         the PS evaluates the fan speed internally by itself with some
>         analog
>         circuitry.
>
>         Unfortunately, as cool as the idea of the ALOM appears at
>         first, with
>         a standby power of ~ 15 W, you'd better power it off with a
>         hardware
>         switch while you don't need it.
>
>
>     _______________________________________________
>     freebsd-sparc64 at freebsd.org <mailto:freebsd-sparc64 at freebsd.org>
>     mailing list
>     http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-sparc64
>     To unsubscribe, send any mail to
>     "freebsd-sparc64-unsubscribe at freebsd.org
>     <mailto:freebsd-sparc64-unsubscribe at freebsd.org>"
>