problem installing 8.2 on Sun Blade 1000

[Riccardo Veraldi]

On 8/15/11 11:03 PM, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> On 2011-Aug-12 17:12:00 +0200, Riccardo Veraldi<riccardo.veraldi at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> I have a Sun Blade 1000.
>> I tried to install FreeBSD 8.2 from CDROM and installation goes straight.
>> Installation exits and I got back to     {0} OK prompt
> If you have serial access, it might simplify debugging if you use
> the serial port (with logging) and post exact errors and the steps
> leading up to them.
>
>> is there a way to fix this ?
>>
>> The installation goes fine but the system won't boot
> I haven't needed to try this on sparc but at least on i386, you can go
> into sysinstall "expert mode" and rewrite the bootblocks at the disk
> partition step without needing to repeat the complete installation -
> "expert mode" enables a "commit now" button.
>
> In order to rule out hardware issues, did the Sun Blade 1000 work
> before you tried to install FreeBSD?  Have you tried running the
> diagnostics (this will need a serial console)?
>
yes it was working with Solaris 10 and there were no POST problems,
everything is ok with that machine.
I will try to manually write the boot blocks.
thank you

Rick