>>> Bill Dorsey <dorsey@lila.com> wrote

> To begin with, the sparc miniroot doesn't work on an Ultrasparc.  
> Something about fast page MMU error.  I used the sparc64 miniroot and 
> was able to tell it to grab the installation sets from the sparc 
> directory instead of the sparc64 directory.  Then when it finishes with 
> the installation, I'm able to replace the generic kernel (which won't 
> work on the Ultra) with the sun4u kernel by hand.  However, when I try 
> to boot up the system after this, I find that I am missing devices for 
> the IDE disks (wd*).  So, the system never makes it past single-user 
> mode with the root filesystem mounted read only.

You need to get /dev/MAKEDEV from sparc64 tarballs. Both sparc and
sparc64 have same majors, but there are missing items each other
(ex. wd*).

Why MAKEDEV is in base set?
If MAKEDEV is in etc sets, we can say for 32-bit sparc64 mode that
use sparc installation sets except for etc set.

-- Takeshi Nakayama