Re: problems installing 2.8 on sparc (resolution)

[Abid Khwaja <abid@tyrann.net>]

And the answer is... the bootblock gets installed after /dev/MAKEDEV 
runs so because I was panic'ing out before it finished, the bootblock 
never got installed.  I figured out the reason for the panic was bad 
memory - once it was removed, the install completed without a hitch 
and the disk boots fine.



At 9:57 PM -0400 6/30/01, Abid Khwaja wrote:
>Does the bootblock not get installed by the 2.8 installer if I run
>the installation sets over NFS (I installed everything except for
>games and X)?  I boot off CD to get things started (SS10 with OBP
>2.12):
>
>ok boot cdrom 2.8/sparc/bsd.rd
>Boot device: /iommu/sbus/espdma@f,400000/esp@f,800000/sd@6,0:d   File
>and args: 2.8/sparc/bsd.rd
>>>   OpenBSD BOOT 2.1
>Booting 2.8/sparc/bsd.rd @ 0x4000
>1056768+2356912+125620=0x364164
>Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
>          The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
>Copyright (c) 1995-2000 OpenBSD. All rights reserved.  http://www.OpenBSD.org
>
>OpenBSD 2.8 (RAMDISK) #75: Mon Nov  6 12:38:20 MST 2000
>      deraadt@sun4m.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/sparc/compile/RAMDISK
>real mem = 200634368
>avail mem = 191344640
>using 16 buffers containing 1048576 bytes of memory
>bootpath:
>/iommu@f,e0000000/sbus@f,e0001000/espdma@f,400000/esp@f,800000/sd@6,0:d
>mainbus0 (root): SUNW,SPARCstation-10
>cpu0 at mainbus0: TMS390Z50 v1 @ 40 MHz, on-chip FPU
>cpu0: physical 20K instruction (64 b/l), 16K data (32 b/l) cache enabled
>obio0 at mainbus0
>clock0 at obio0 addr 0xf1200000: mk48t08 (eeprom)
>timer0 at obio0 addr 0xf1300000 delay constant 18
>zs0 at obio0 addr 0xf1100000 pri 12, softpri 6
>zs0a: console i/o
>zs1 at obio0 addr 0xf1000000 pri 12, softpri 6
>fdc0 at obio0 addr 0xf1700000 pri 11, softpri 4: chip 82077
>fd0 at fdc0 drive 0: 1.44MB 80 cyl, 2 head, 18 sec
>auxreg0 at obio0 addr 0xf1800000
>power0 at obio0 addr 0xf1a01000
>iommu0 at mainbus0 ioaddr 0xe0000000: version 0x3/0x0, page-size
>4096, range 64MB
>sbus0 at iommu0: clock = 20 MHz
>dma0 at sbus0 slot 15 offset 0x400000: rev 2
>esp0 at dma0 offset 0x800000 pri 4: ESP200, 40MHz, SCSI ID 7
>scsibus0 at esp0: 8 targets
>sd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <SEAGATE, ST15150N, 8607> SCSI2 0/direct fixed
>sd0: 4095MB, 3712 cyl, 21 head, 107 sec, 512 bytes/sec, 8388315 sec total
>sd1 at scsibus0 targ 3 lun 0: <SEAGATE, ST31200N SUN1.05, 9460> SCSI2
>0/direct fixed
>sd1: 1006MB, 2700 cyl, 9 head, 84 sec, 512 bytes/sec, 2061108 sec total
>cd0 at scsibus0 targ 6 lun 0: <TOSHIBA, CD-ROM XM-5701TA, 0167> SCSI2
>5/cdrom removable
>ledma0 at sbus0 slot 15 offset 0x400010: rev 2
>le0 at ledma0 offset 0xc00000 pri 6: address 08:00:20:1d:ee:91
>le0: 16 receive buffers, 4 transmit buffers
>SUNW,bpp at sbus0 slot 15 offset 0x4800000 not configured
>SUNW,DBRIe at sbus0 slot 15 offset 0x8010000 not configured
>
>But for some reason my CD-ROM drive is not recognized when it's time
>to install the packages so I've copied the contents of the CD to my
>NFS server and run the package install from there.  Packages install
>without errors but once all is done, I'm not able to boot off the
>disk - get a message saying:
>
>Select a sub-timezone [`?' for list]: ?
>Alaska          Central         Hawaii          Mountain        Samoa
>Aleutian        East-Indiana    Indiana-Starke  Pacific
>Arizona         Eastern         Michigan        Pacific-New
>There are several timezones available within zone 'US'
>Select a sub-timezone [`?' for list]: Eastern
>You have selected timezone "US/Eastern".
>Installing timezone link.
>Making all device nodes (by running /dev/MAKEDEV all) ...NMI: system
>interrupts:
>panic: nmi
>syncing disks... 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 giving up
>Frame pointer is at 0xf8109da8
>Call traceback:
>    pc = 0xf80f05d8  args = (0xf8345400, 0x41000fe3, 0xf8344c00, 0x0,
>0xf8109ec0, 0x0, 0xf8109e10) fp = 0xf8109e10
>    pc = 0xf802d3e4  args = (0x100, 0xf8109f28, 0xf8109f28, 0x0,
>0xf8109f30, 0xffffffff, 0xf8109e78) fp = 0xf8109e78
>    pc = 0xf80ef3fc  args = (0xf80ef378, 0xf8109f28, 0x100, 0xf8354744,
>0xf83458d4, 0x0, 0xf8109ee0) fp = 0xf8109ee0
>    pc = 0xf8008d58  args = (0xfe014000, 0x8000, 0x50, 0x3, 0x14, 0x0,
>0xf8109f50) fp = 0xf8109f50
>    pc = 0xf80fa2b8  args = (0xf8391000, 0xf8392000, 0x20, 0x0,
>0x39362f30, 0x382f3139, 0xf9793ce8) fp = 0xf9793ce8
>sd0: WARNING: cache synchronization failed
>rebooting
>
>Resetting ...
>screen not found.
>Can't open input device.
>Keyboard not present.  Using tty for input and output.
>
>SPARCstation 10  (1 X 390Z50), No Keyboard
>ROM Rev. 2.12, 192 MB memory installed, Serial #3300496.
>Ethernet address 8:0:20:1d:ee:91, Host ID: 72325c90.
>
>
>Rebooting with command:                                             
>Boot device: /iommu/sbus/espdma@f,400000/esp@f,800000/sd@0,0   File
>and args: bsd
>Type  help  for more information
>ok
>
>I've set boot-file to bsd in PROM and the boot device is set
>correctly.  Running a "boot" from PROM tells you "The file just
>loaded does not appear to be executable".
>
>You'll also notice I don't get all the way through the install; I get
>a system panic when /dev/MAKEDEV is run.  Before I try to do the
>install manually, can someone offer any pointers/suggestions to my 2
>problems - nmi panic and disk not bootable?
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>
>abid@tyrann.net
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