Re: NetBSD/sparc64 9.0 hanging up on Sun Ultra 5

[David Brownlee <abs%absd.org@localhost>]

On Mon, 13 Apr 2020 at 13:29, lorecast162 <lorecastcauli%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>
> Hi. I wanted to try running something different and more modern on my
> old Sun workstation/server here.
> So I tried running NetBSD on it since it's the only BSD I know can run
> a X11 session on it.
> I burned an ISO, checksum turned out good and I can boot it with boot
> cdrom on my machine
> The console goes forth for a while but then it goes black screen and I
> can do nothing with Stop-a, the status lights dont react to me
> pressing caps-lock etc, nothing shows up on the console.
> I realized it does this right after the line saying `[1.0000000]
> machfb0 4096 KB SGRAM 98.924 MHz, maximum RAMDAC clock 230MHz
> post_div: 2 log2_post_div: 1 mclk_div: 228`.
> I've put a video on yt with the machine booting here:
> https://youtu.be/vVXH6TgBaFg (it's not on a CRT monitor so don't worry
> about flicker)

Hi

Would you be able to test the latest current image from
http://nyftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/HEAD/latest/images/ to see if
its an issue that has been resolved since -9?

Thanks

David