Hello again, I attached the dmesg if anyone is interested. This is from the system booting NetBSD/sparc verion 6.1.5 of the external SCSI drive, using the NetBSD 3.1 /boot secondary bootloader, and NetBSD 6.1.5 bootxx primary bootloader. 2014-10-13 20:48 GMT+02:00 Adrian Christiansen <adrian.christiansen%gmail.com@localhost>: > Hi Georg! > > I don't know if I should be happy or sad, but this actually got the > system to boot. I used boot from 3.1 and the bootxx from 6.1.5. So > there's my problem, I need a new BootROM I guess... or boot should be > fixed? > > Thanks!, > Adrian. > > 2014-10-13 19:18 GMT+02:00 Georg Brein <georg.brein%unibas.ch@localhost>: >> I had the same (or similar) problem back in 2007 on >> my SparcStation 2 (ROM Rev. 2.2) while installing NetBSD >> 4.0 RC1 (see NetBSD bug report #37080): >> >> The second stage boot loader from 4.0 RC1 failed >> with a Data Access Exception. As a quick fix I >> substituted the second stage boot loader from NetBSD >> 3.1 which worked flawlessly with the 4.0 RC1 >> installation. >> >> The proper fix (which took a little longer to implement >> since I had to acquire an EPROM burner) was to upgrade >> to ROM Rev. 2.9 (AFAIK the latest for the SparcStation 2) >> which allowed the 4.0 RC1 (and later) second stage >> boot loaders to function. >> >> Of course this is old history; I don't know if the >> 3.1 boot loader quick fix is still feasible with a >> current NetBSD release, but it seems likely, since >> the current boot loader still has the same version (1.15) >> as the 4.0 RC1 boot loader back in 2007 which >> indicates little change in this area of NetBSD (incidentally, >> the boot loader for NetBSD 3.1 has version 1.15 as well; I >> guess there was either a change in some included/linked >> code or in the compiler used between NetBSD 3.1 and >> NetBSD 4.0 RC1 leading to different binaries from the >> same source code). >> >> The latest ROM revision for the IPX seems to be 2.9 >> as well (but unfortunately I don't know where to get >> the relevant IPX specific ROM image). >> >> Regards, >> Georg Brein >> >> Am 12.10.2014 um 20:34 schrieb Adrian Christiansen: >> >>> Hi guys!, >>> >>> I'm relatively new to SUN machines and I just finished installing >>> NetBSD onto my SPARCstation IPX. Followed the instructions in >>> INSTALL.html and netbooted the install. Then I just followed the >>> installation thru, using the entire disk and making a root partition >>> at a: in the disklabel. >>> >>> After that all completed I'm now stuck here in OpenBoot 2: >>> >>> ok boot disk3:a netbsd >>> Boot device: /sbus/esp@0,800000/sd@0,0:a File and args: netbsd >>>>> NetBSD/sparc Secondary Boot, Revision 1.15 >>> Booting netbsd >>> Data Access Exception >>> ok >>> >>> There's a / spiny thing for a brief moment, the ROM revision is 2.3. >>> >>> >>> Honestly I don't really know where to go from here? >>
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