Ultra 5 Boot Hang Update.

[Kurt Lidl]

Try using the kernel binary from a snapshot that has the
following commit in it, when it becomes available.

There was a hang fixed for the Ultra 30, that may or may not be
relevant.  You'll want to make sure your kernel has this commit:

commit 16d43a0ed2f5adf6e2ba5b214b6cf0622aed289c
Author: marius <marius at FreeBSD.org>
Date:   Sat Apr 29 00:53:17 2017 +0000

     Fix a bug introduced as part of r287726; use the right device_t for
     determining the softc of the bridge in psycho_route_interrupt(). [1]
     While at it, update the corresponding comment that the code in
     question is also necessary for U30s in addition to E450s (a fact
     that has been known for ages).

     PR:             218478
     Submitted by:   Yoshihiko Iwama

(also known as "r317578")

It looks like the latest snapshot release was created on 20-Apr-2017,
so you'll probably have to wait for the next snapshot to be generated.

http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/sparc64/12.0-CURRENT/

-Kurt

On 5/8/17 6:45 PM, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote:
> 
> On 2017-05-08 18:34, Gordon Zaft wrote:
>> Have you tried booting from CDROM?  I'm assuming this is 11.0?
> 
> Well... the CDROM in the box probes in the openprom (ie: open prom sees
> it), but it doesn't seem to work.  I've put the 11.0 CD into it, but the
> boot fails.
> 
> I'm not sure making the CD work would solve the problem, though.  Be
> clear, I've put /boot/loader on my tftpboot server as C0A8DD07
> (192.168.221.7 --- the rarp'd IP address for the machine) and loader
> loads.  Then I can successfully "load /kernel" in loader ... which
> causes it to load /tftpboot/cdrom/kernel (/cdrom is the nfs root ...
> which is where the image of the CD is mounted on the network).
> 
> You might say that I'm not a noob when it comes to netbooting old UN*X
> boxes.  Wel... maybe it took me a dozen tries to "remember" things, but
> still... I got it done.
> 
> But if the kernel boots, would an alternate method of booting the kernel
> really make any difference?
> 
>> On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 2:11 PM, Zaphod Beeblebrox <zbeeble at gmail.com
>> <mailto:zbeeble at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>      so the whole boot -v is attached via the link below.  Please
>>      help.  Hangs
>>      forever after the last pcib1 line (and STOP-A doesn't drop to a
>>      prompt)
>>      ... just to jog everyone's memory, to get this going I (translate / to
>>      enter):
>>
>>      set-defaults/1 0 mkp/80 1 mkp/8 2 mkp/0 3 mkp/20 4 mkp/c0 5 mkp/ff
>>      6 mkp/ee
>>      7 mkp/0 8 mkp/0 9 mkp/0 a mkp/0 b mkp/c0 c mkp/ff d mkp/ee e mkp/0
>>      f 0 do i
>>      idprom@ xor loop f mkp
>>
>>      ... does that initialization pose some problem for FreeBSD?
>>
>>      https://owncloud.towernet.ca/index.php/s/14awIqSzdOBexok
>>      <https://owncloud.towernet.ca/index.php/s/14awIqSzdOBexok>
>>
> 
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