sparc64/98269: Fresh 6.1 installation fails to boot

[Jarkko Santala]

The following reply was made to PR sparc64/98269; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Jarkko Santala <jake at iki.fi>
To: James Tanis <jtanis at pycoder.org>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: sparc64/98269: Fresh 6.1 installation fails to boot
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 11:37:28 +0300 (EEST)

 On Thu, 1 Jun 2006, James Tanis wrote:
 
 > Assuming a Blade 100 operates near to the same as most previous
 > Sparcs/UltraSparcs, the system defaults to booting off of the device
 > last booted off of. Try hitting stop-a and doing a "boot disk," or
 > whatever your version of PROM requires to boot off the first disk.
 
 Good tip, this indeed was the problem. After "boot disk" the system boots 
 fine. Thank you very much. Any chance of this bit of valuable information 
 making its way to 
 http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.1R/installation-sparc64.html so that I'd 
 be the last to submit a PR about such a silly thing? ;)
 
 In any case at least after this google will probably come up with more 
 that 3 hits for "File /boot/loader not found".
 
 > This looks to me to have absolutely nothing to do with freebsd, its
 > not even loading the freebsd bootloader from what I've seen. If
 > installation was successful most likely you are attempting to boot off
 > the wrong device (or at least, not the device the bootloader was
 > installed on). Also, if its really typing x's for your ethernet
 > address, you may need to get a new nvram as it's battery may be dead
 > -- I'm not sure whether the Blade 100 uses NVRAM or if its one of the
 > newer systems with an SEEPROM and therefore doesn't need a battery. Is
 > there a keyboard connected? If there is, I think freebsd may be the
 > least of your problems.
 
 I changed that stuff by hand, no worries.
 
 Thanks,
 
  	-jake
 
 >
 > On 6/1/06, Jarkko Santala <jake at iki.fi> wrote:
 >> 
 >> >Number:         98269
 >> >Category:       sparc64
 >> >Synopsis:       Fresh 6.1 installation fails to boot
 >> >Confidential:   no
 >> >Severity:       serious
 >> >Priority:       medium
 >> >Responsible:    freebsd-sparc64
 >> >State:          open
 >> >Quarter:
 >> >Keywords:
 >> >Date-Required:
 >> >Class:          sw-bug
 >> >Submitter-Id:   current-users
 >> >Arrival-Date:   Thu Jun 01 07:10:17 GMT 2006
 >> >Closed-Date:
 >> >Last-Modified:
 >> >Originator:     Jarkko Santala
 >> >Release:        6.1-RELEASE
 >> >Organization:
 >> >Environment:
 >> N/A
 >> >Description:
 >> I tried to install 6.1 sparc64 into a spanking unused Sun Blade 100 with 
 >> 15GB IDE driver and 128MB RAM plus 2x256MB additional RAM. Installation 
 >> went smoothly, but after reset it fails to boot with the following message:
 >> 
 >> Sun Blade 100 (UltraSPARC-IIe), No Keyboard
 >> OpenBoot 4.0, 640 MB memory installed, Serial #12345678.
 >> Ethernet address xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx, Host ID: 12345678.
 >> 
 >> 
 >> 
 >> Boot device: disk:b  File and args:
 >> 
 >> >How-To-Repeat:
 >> Install a fresh copy of 6.1 into a Sun Blade 100 or perhaps some other IDE 
 >> Sun.
 >> >Fix:
 >> 
 >> >Release-Note:
 >> >Audit-Trail:
 >> >Unformatted:
 >>  >> FreeBSD/sparc64 boot block
 >>     Boot path:   /pci at 1f,0/ide at d/disk at 0,0:b
 >>     Boot loader: /boot/loader
 >>  File /boot/loader not found
 >>  Program terminated
 >>  ok
 >>
 >>  Shouldn't it try to load /boot/loader from a and not b?
 >> 
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