Re: Alpha and Sparc problems

[Kit Halsted <kit@kithalsted.com>]

At 12:53 PM -0500 2/11/02, Napalm wrote:
>I recently bought OpenBSD 3.0 so that all my servers could run the same OS.
>I
>have one SS4 and 2 DEC 250 machines. I have unique problems with each
>platform. I have spoken with a couple people on IRC @ openprojects.net
>#openbsd. The problems are below
>
>Sparc:
>The system comes up and is (local,read-only). I type "mount" and get
>"root-device on / type ffs (local,read-only). I also "cat /etc/fstab" and
>have "/dev/sd0a / ffs rw 1 1". I have tried to "mount -uw /" and recv'd
>"mount_ffs: /dev/sd0a on /: specified device does not match mounted device".
>Any ideas as what to change or to fix?

Not without a dmesg, but I can tell you that I have a SPARCstation 4 
running 3.0-stable. It had a major problem in August, when it was 
running 2.9, but that was probably directly related to my power being 
shut off. It's been running like a dream ever since, aside from the 
long compile times that go along with a 110MHz CPU.

>Alpha:
<snip>

Sorry, I'm no help there. Others would probably be better able to 
help if you supplied a dmesg.

HTH,
-Kit
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