sparc64/98269: Fresh 6.1 installation fails to boot

[James Tanis]

The following reply was made to PR sparc64/98269; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "James Tanis" <jtanis at pycoder.org>
To: "Jarkko Santala" <jake at iki.fi>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: sparc64/98269: Fresh 6.1 installation fails to boot
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 04:05:45 -0400

 Assuming a Blade 100 operates near to the same as most previous
 Sparcs/UltraSparcs, the system defaults to booting off of the device
 last booted off of. Try hitting stop-a and doing a "boot disk," or
 whatever your version of PROM requires to boot off the first disk.
 This looks to me to have absolutely nothing to do with freebsd, its
 not even loading the freebsd bootloader from what I've seen. If
 installation was successful most likely you are attempting to boot off
 the wrong device (or at least, not the device the bootloader was
 installed on). Also, if its really typing x's for your ethernet
 address, you may need to get a new nvram as it's battery may be dead
 -- I'm not sure whether the Blade 100 uses NVRAM or if its one of the
 newer systems with an SEEPROM and therefore doesn't need a battery. Is
 there a keyboard connected? If there is, I think freebsd may be the
 least of your problems.
 
 On 6/1/06, Jarkko Santala <jake at iki.fi> wrote:
 >
 > >Number:         98269
 > >Category:       sparc64
 > >Synopsis:       Fresh 6.1 installation fails to boot
 > >Confidential:   no
 > >Severity:       serious
 > >Priority:       medium
 > >Responsible:    freebsd-sparc64
 > >State:          open
 > >Quarter:
 > >Keywords:
 > >Date-Required:
 > >Class:          sw-bug
 > >Submitter-Id:   current-users
 > >Arrival-Date:   Thu Jun 01 07:10:17 GMT 2006
 > >Closed-Date:
 > >Last-Modified:
 > >Originator:     Jarkko Santala
 > >Release:        6.1-RELEASE
 > >Organization:
 > >Environment:
 > N/A
 > >Description:
 > I tried to install 6.1 sparc64 into a spanking unused Sun Blade 100 with 15GB IDE driver and 128MB RAM plus 2x256MB additional RAM. Installation went smoothly, but after reset it fails to boot with the following message:
 >
 > Sun Blade 100 (UltraSPARC-IIe), No Keyboard
 > OpenBoot 4.0, 640 MB memory installed, Serial #12345678.
 > Ethernet address xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx, Host ID: 12345678.
 >
 >
 >
 > Boot device: disk:b  File and args:
 >
 > >How-To-Repeat:
 > Install a fresh copy of 6.1 into a Sun Blade 100 or perhaps some other IDE Sun.
 > >Fix:
 >
 > >Release-Note:
 > >Audit-Trail:
 > >Unformatted:
 >  >> FreeBSD/sparc64 boot block
 >     Boot path:   /pci at 1f,0/ide at d/disk at 0,0:b
 >     Boot loader: /boot/loader
 >  File /boot/loader not found
 >  Program terminated
 >  ok
 >
 >  Shouldn't it try to load /boot/loader from a and not b?
 >
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 James Tanis
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