Getting 6.1 Sparc64 onto a Netra X1

Sorry, sent previous mail from wrong account! That's what I
get for 
doing three things at once!

I have a Netra X1 that I'd like to use with FreeBSD. After
hunting 
around, I found the following brief howto:

http://freebsd.mu/2005/10/19/freebsd-for-sparc
64-sun-netra-x1.html

Unfortunately, this doesn't work! This is what I get:

Sun Netra X1 (UltraSPARC-IIe 400MHz), No Keyboard
OpenBoot 4.0, 128 MB memory installed, Serial #50990484.
Ethernet address 0:3:ba:a:d:94, Host ID: 830a0d94.


Environment monitoring: disabled
Executing last command: boot cdrom
Boot device: /pci1f,0/ided/cdrom2,0:f 
File and args:
Evaluating: boot cdrom

Can't open boot device

Boot device: disk  File and args:
Loading ufs-file-system package 1.4 04 Aug 1995 13:02:54.


I have tried re-burning the CD and different CD Drives. Not
sure what 
else I can do.

Anyone have an idea?
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Hi,

I had similar problems on a Sun Fire V210.  The problem is
that your
cdrom device alias is wrong, hence OBP can't open the
device.

On the Sun Fire V210, I figured out which bus the CD-ROM was
connected to
through trial and error using a SCSI disk that I would plug
into
different bus slots and
try to boot.

Eventually, I figured out the right bus and created a device
alias for cdrom:

devalias cdrom /pci1c,600000/scsi2,1/disk6,0:f

(This is a printout of the entry from my nvramrc.)

You don't need the devalias to boot the system.  You just
need the
complete path, like the one following the
"cdrom" term as above.
Remember, the CD-ROM is nothing more
than a read-only hard drive.  In this case, I was able to
boot by
sticking the CD-ROM at
SCSI device location 6 and booting from the same :f
partition as you'd expect.

Coincidentally, I took the hard drive with FreeBSD on it and
removed
it from the V210.
I placed it in my own Netra X1 and have been running FreeBSD
ever since!

JP


On 8/31/06, Christopher Martin <chris.m.maillistsebit.com.au> wrote:
> Sorry, sent previous mail from wrong account! That's
what I get for
> doing three things at once!
>
> I have a Netra X1 that I'd like to use with FreeBSD.
After hunting
> around, I found the following brief howto:
>
> http://freebsd.mu/2005/10/19/freebsd-for-sparc
64-sun-netra-x1.html
>
> Unfortunately, this doesn't work! This is what I get:
>
> Sun Netra X1 (UltraSPARC-IIe 400MHz), No Keyboard
> OpenBoot 4.0, 128 MB memory installed, Serial
#50990484.
> Ethernet address 0:3:ba:a:d:94, Host ID: 830a0d94.
>
>
> Environment monitoring: disabled
> Executing last command: boot cdrom
> Boot device: /pci1f,0/ided/cdrom2,0:f 
File and args:
> Evaluating: boot cdrom
>
> Can't open boot device
>
> Boot device: disk  File and args:
> Loading ufs-file-system package 1.4 04 Aug 1995
13:02:54.
>
>
> I have tried re-burning the CD and different CD Drives.
Not sure what
> else I can do.
>
> Anyone have an idea?
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Joshua Pincus <joshua.pincusgmail.com> wrote: Hi,

I had similar problems on a Sun Fire V210.  The problem is
that your
cdrom device alias is wrong, hence OBP can't open the
device.

On the Sun Fire V210, I figured out which bus the CD-ROM was
connected to
through trial and error using a SCSI disk that I would plug
into
different bus slots and
try to boot.

Eventually, I figured out the right bus and created a device
alias for cdrom:

devalias cdrom /pci1c,600000/scsi2,1/disk6,0:f

(This is a printout of the entry from my nvramrc.)

You don't need the devalias to boot the system.  You just
need the
complete path, like the one following the
"cdrom" term as above.
Remember, the CD-ROM is nothing more
than a read-only hard drive.  In this case, I was able to
boot by
sticking the CD-ROM at
SCSI device location 6 and booting from the same :f
partition as you'd expect.

Coincidentally, I took the hard drive with FreeBSD on it and
removed
it from the V210.
I placed it in my own Netra X1 and have been running FreeBSD
ever since!

does the probe-scsi-all (probe-ide for come models) obp
command not work on netras? 
 
 		
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Yes.  It does.

JP
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On 8/31/06, K Chapman <tech2187yahoo.com> wrote:
> Joshua Pincus <joshua.pincusgmail.com> wrote:
>  Hi,
>
> I had similar problems on a Sun Fire V210. The problem
is that your
> cdrom device alias is wrong, hence OBP can't open the
device.
>
> On the Sun Fire V210, I figured out which bus the
CD-ROM was connected to
> through trial and error using a SCSI disk that I would
plug into
> different bus slots and
> try to boot.
>
> Eventually, I figured out the right bus and created a
device alias for
> cdrom:
>
> devalias cdrom /pci1c,600000/scsi2,1/disk6,0:f
>
> (This is a printout of the entry from my nvramrc.)
>
> You don't need the devalias to boot the system. You
just need the
> complete path, like the one following the
"cdrom" term as above.
> Remember, the CD-ROM is nothing more
> than a read-only hard drive. In this case, I was able
to boot by
> sticking the CD-ROM at
> SCSI device location 6 and booting from the same :f
partition as you'd
> expect.
>
> Coincidentally, I took the hard drive with FreeBSD on
it and removed
> it from the V210.
> I placed it in my own Netra X1 and have been running
FreeBSD ever since!
>
> does the probe-scsi-all (probe-ide for come models) obp
command not work on
> netras?
>
>
>  ________________________________
> How low will we go? Check out Yahoo! Messenger's low
PC-to-Phone call rates.
>
>
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