Boot NetBSD9.1 on a SUN Blade 100

[Oliver Haak <oliver.haak%posteo.de@localhost>]

Hi,

I recently got my hands on a Sun Blade 100 with Solaris 9 installed. 
While I was using Solaris during my universiyt times, nowadays it feels 
a bit awkward, as it seems to be sometimes a bit difficult to adminster. 
Moreover, there seems to be no up-to-date web-browser available for it. 
OpenCSW.org offers a great collection of pre-compiled SW packages, 
however, these seem to be a little outdated as well, as those for 
Solaris 9 are no longer updated.
So, a good time to switch over to something different. I'm quite 
enthusiastic about Linux and aslways wanted to try one of the 
BSD-flavours. I downloaded the NetBSD-9.1-ISO and burnt it on a CD. 
While the booting from CDROM seems to work quite ok at first sight, the 
kernel hangs at "admtemp0: workqueue busy: updates stopped" and I have 
not the slightest idea, what this could mean. The sensor shwos up 
earlier in the boot log, but seems to be ok.

Any hints?

Cheers,
Oliver

Log from booting sequence (no keyboard attached, so that I get the 
output on ttya):

Sun Blade 100 (UltraSPARC-IIe), No Keyboard
Copyright 1998-2004 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All rights reserved.
OpenBoot 4.16.2, 2048 MB memory installed, Serial #55884910.
Ethernet address 0:3:ba:15:a:fc, Host ID: 8354bc6e.




ok boot cdrom
Boot device: /pci@1f,0/ide@d/cdrom@1,0:f  File and args:
NetBSD IEEE 1275 Multi-FS Bootblock
Version $NetBSD: bootblk.fth,v 1.15 2015/08/20 05:40:08 dholland Exp $
>> NetBSD/sparc64 OpenFirmware Boot, Revision 1.20 (Sun Oct 18 19:24:30 
UTC 2020)
=0x960e48
Loading netbsd: 9833992+480976+338472 [716928+471337]=0xdeac58
[   1.0000000] Copyright (c) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 
2003, 2004, 2005,
[   1.0000000]     2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 
2015, 2016, 2017,
[   1.0000000]     2018, 2019, 2020 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.  All 
rights reserved.
[   1.0000000] Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
[   1.0000000]     The Regents of the University of California.  All 
rights reserved.

[   1.0000000] NetBSD 9.1 (GENERIC) #0: Sun Oct 18 19:24:30 UTC 2020
[   1.0000000] 
mkrepro%mkrepro.NetBSD.org@localhost:/usr/src/sys/arch/sparc64/compile/GENERIC
[   1.0000000] total memory = 2048 MB
[   1.0000000] avail memory = 1993 MB
[   1.0000000] running cgd selftest aes-xts-256 aes-xts-512 done
[   1.0000000] mainbus0 (root): SUNW,Sun-Blade-100 (Sun Blade 100): 
hostid 8354bc6e
[   1.0000000] cpu0 at mainbus0: SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIe @ 502 MHz, CPU id 0
[   1.0000000] cpu0: manuf 17, impl 13, mask 14
[   1.0000000] cpu0: system tick frequency 5.555 MHz
[   1.0000000] cpu0: 16K instruction (32 b/l), 16K data (32 b/l), 256K 
external (64 b/l)
[   1.0000000] psycho0 at mainbus0
[   1.0000000] psycho0: pci108e,a001: impl 0, version 0: ign 7c0 bus 
range 0 to 1; PCI bus 0
[   1.0000000] pci0 at psycho0
[   1.0000000] ebus0 at pci0 dev 12 function 0: Sun Microsystems PCIO 
Ebus2 (US III), revision 0x01
[   1.0000000] flashprom at ebus0 addr 0-fffff not configured
[   1.0000000] clock0 at ebus0 addr 0-1fff: mk48t59
ebus_attach: idprom: incomplete
[   1.0000000] ebus1 at pci0 dev 7 function 0: Acer Labs M1533 PCI-ISA 
Bridge, revision 0x00
[   1.0000000] dma at ebus1 addr 0-ffff ipl 2a not configured
[   1.0000000] power at ebus1 addr 800-82f ipl 20 not configured
[   1.0000000] com0 at ebus1 addr 3f8-3ff ipl 2b: ns16550a, working fifo
[   1.0000000] com0: console
[   1.0000000] com1 at ebus1 addr 2e8-2ef ipl 2b: ns16550a, working fifo
[   1.0000000] alipm0 at pci0 dev 3 function 0: 223KHz clock
[   1.0000000] iic0 at alipm0: I2C bus
[   1.0000000] admtemp0 at iic0 addr 0x18: MAX1617A temperature sensor: 
id. 0x41, rev. 0x3c
[   1.0000000] card-reader at iic0 addr 0x20 not configured
[   1.0000000] spdmem0 at iic0 addr 0x50
[   1.0000000] spdmem0: SDRAM, data ECC, 512MB, 133MHz (PC-133)
[   1.0000000] spdmem1 at iic0 addr 0x51
[   1.0000000] spdmem1: SDRAM, data ECC, 512MB, 133MHz (PC-133)
[   1.0000000] spdmem2 at iic0 addr 0x52
[   1.0000000] spdmem2: SDRAM, data ECC, 512MB, 133MHz (PC-133)
[   1.0000000] spdmem3 at iic0 addr 0x53
[   1.0000000] spdmem3: SDRAM, data ECC, 512MB, 133MHz (PC-133)
[   1.0000000] gem0 at pci0 dev 12 function 1: Sun Microsystems ERI 
Ethernet (rev. 0x01)
[   1.0000000] gem0: interrupting at ivec 3006
[   1.0000000] ukphy0 at gem0 phy 1: OUI 0x0008bb, model 0x0002, rev. 1
[   1.0000000] ukphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
[   1.0000000] gem0: Ethernet address 00:03:ba:15:0a:fc, 2KB RX fifo, 
2KB TX fifo
[   1.0000000] fwohci0 at pci0 dev 12 function 2: Sun Microsystems 
FireWire Controller (rev. 0x01)
[   1.0000000] fwohci0: interrupting at ivec 1c
[   1.0000000] fwohci0: OHCI version 1.0 (ROM=0)
[   1.0000000] fwohci0: No. of Isochronous channels is 4.
[   1.0000000] fwohci0: EUI64 00:03:ba:ff:fe:15:0a:fc
[   1.0000000] fwohci0: Phy 1394a available S400, 2 ports.
[   1.0000000] fwohci0: Link S400, max_rec 2048 bytes.
[   1.0000000] ieee1394if0 at fwohci0: IEEE1394 bus
[   1.0000000] fwip0 at ieee1394if0: IP over IEEE1394
[   1.0000000] fwohci0: Initiate bus reset
[   1.0000000] ohci0 at pci0 dev 12 function 3: Sun Microsystems USB 
Controller (rev. 0x01)
[   1.0000000] ohci0: interrupting at ivec 24
[   1.0000000] ohci0: OHCI version 1.0, legacy support
[   1.0000000] usb0 at ohci0: USB revision 1.0
[   1.0000000] autri0 at pci0 dev 8 function 0: Acer Labs M5451 AC-Link 
Controller Audio Device (rev. 0x01)
[   1.0000000] autri0: interrupting at ivec 23
[   1.0000000] autri0: ac97: Analog Devices AD1881A codec; headphone, 
Analog Devices Phat Stereo
[   1.0000000] audio0 at autri0: playback, capture, full duplex, independent
[   1.0000000] audio0: slinear_be:16 -> slinear_le:16 2ch 48000Hz, blk 
1920 bytes (10ms) for playback
[   1.0000000] audio0: slinear_be:16 <- slinear_le:16 2ch 48000Hz, blk 
1920 bytes (10ms) for recording
[   1.0000000] spkr0 at audio0: PC Speaker (synthesized)
[   1.0000000] wsbell at spkr0 not configured
[   1.0000000] midi0 at autri0: 4DWAVE MIDI UART
[   1.0000000] aceride0 at pci0 dev 13 function 0: Acer Labs M5229 UDMA 
IDE Controller (rev. 0xc3)
[   1.0000000] aceride0: using ivec 180c for native-PCI interrupt
[   1.0000000] atabus0 at aceride0 channel 0
[   1.0000000] atabus1 at aceride0 channel 1
[   1.0000000] ppb0 at pci0 dev 5 function 0: Intel S21152BB PCI-PCI 
Bridge (rev. 0x00)
[   1.0000000] pci1 at ppb0 bus 1
[   1.0000000] genfb0 at pci1 dev 2 function 0: Intergraph product 07a0 
(rev. 0x00)
[   1.0000000] machfb0 at pci0 dev 19 function 0: ATI Technologies Rage 
XL (rev. 0x27)
[   1.0000000] machfb0: using MMIO aperture
[   1.0000000] machfb0: 16 MB aperture at 0x06000000, 4 KB registers at 
0x00426000
[   1.0000000] machfb0: 128 KB ROM at 0x00440000
[   1.0000000] machfb0: ref_freq=29.498MHz
[   1.0000000] machfb0: 8192 KB SDRAM 114.992 MHz, maximum RAMDAC clock 
230 MHz
[   1.0000000] machfb0: initial resolution 1152x900 at 8 bpp
[   1.0000000] wsdisplay1 at machfb0 kbdmux 1
[   1.0000000] direct rendering for machfb0 unsupported
[   1.0000000] pcons at mainbus0 not configured
[   1.0000000] fwohci0: BUS reset
[   1.0000000] fwohci0: node_id=0xc800ffc0, gen=1, CYCLEMASTER mode
[   1.0000000] ieee1394if0: 1 nodes, maxhop <= 0 cable IRM irm(0) (me)
[   1.0000000] ieee1394if0: bus manager 0
[   1.0000373] No counter-timer -- using STICK at 5.555MHz as system clock.
[   1.1300151] uhub0 at usb0: NetBSD (0000) OHCI root hub (0000), class 
9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
[  61.9994084] admtemp0: workqueue busy: updates stopped