my poor e450 ;)

[John]

Well i forgot that i started a wipe of the drive before i left on friday. :/
Guess what, it works now (reinstalled with 5.1-R again). 
I think when i upgraded to current i got a bad boot loader. The thing 
I don't understand is why installing 5.1 didn't kill the old loader. 
I would guess the installer didn't newfs the partitions.  I'm sure 
that when i reinstalled 5.1-R (over 5.1-Beta) i deleted and 
recreated the slices, and that the newfs flag was set to Y.
But i did notice on the last install that the newfs only take a second or 
two to run now (UFS2ism?)

Well anyways this is how i wiped the drive (from openbsd btw)
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sd2c bs=512
only took 20 hours.

Thanks for everything!

On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 02:33:22AM +0200, Thomas Moestl wrote:
> On Thu, 2003/06/19 at 23:22:59 -0500, John wrote:
> > Just wondering if you can give me a hand. My E450 has not booted FreeBSD 
> > sinse i upgrade to current and installed your patch. This started the day 
> > you posted the patch btw.
> > http://docs.FreeBSD.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=52665+0+archive/2003/freebsd-sparc64/20030601.freebsd-sparc64
> > 
> > Not to say your patch hosed my e450, who knows what happened. I've posted a lot
> > of info to the sparc64 mailing list. If you get a sec, could you check it out
> > and tell me if you can think of anything to check?
> 
> The problem seems to already be with the loader (so the patch must be
> innocent :). Does pressing Stop-A (or sending a break if you are using
> a serial console) bring you back to the firmware prompt? If so, can
> you please use the 'ctrace' command at the loader prompt, and send me
> the output? I'll also need your loader binary in that case to examine
> it.
> 
> 	- Thomas
> 
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