FreeBSD or any Type of BSD on Sun Cobalt

[Justin Oechsner]

Hello,
I like many other out there have a Sun system known as a Cobalt. Mines a 
Cobalt XTR. It's an x86 Platform mines (1Ghz Intel PIII (coppermine, dual 
capable). Currently there are no BSD Platforms which will install on it. You 
can however install Linux Platforms, such RedHat/Slack/Gen ect ect. after 
you flash the BIOS with an after market Flash available from Sourceforge 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/cobalt-rom . The current problem at had with 
all of the Cobalt systems is that there is no Standard bios for it, allowing 
load from a MBR. Even though the ROM data from Sun and from Sourceforge is 
all open source. For those of you that don't understand why you can't just 
pop in a CD disto of BSD or Net Boot, its because the systems have the 
kernal in Flash. Using a kernal to load rather then a normal Bios. Makes 
things a pain. If you want to update the kernal you have to update the 
flash.

Does anybody out there know of anything new? A way to do it? I've read a lot 
of posts, on server after server of just ideas. I've tried a few with no 
luck. Any info of real justice on this issue would be great, to help a lot 
of people bring them back out of the closet.

(On a smaller note, Cobalt was bought out by Sun Microsystems (then dropped 
them),  Symantec also used Cobalt XTR's for Internet Appliences, under the 
name Velociraptor 1300, if that helps.)

Justin Oechsner.

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