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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!newsfeed.nacamar.de!fu-berlin.de!news-ber1.dfn.de!news-fra1.dfn.de!si-nic!engel From: engel@numerik.fb6.uni-siegen.de (Michael Engel) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: Sparc 1/1+ Net BSD 1.2 - HELP Date: 22 Mar 1997 15:30:09 GMT Organization: Computer Center, University of Siegen, Germany Lines: 21 Message-ID: <5h0tu2$o0j@si-nic.hrz.uni-siegen.de> References: <33320a31.1696611@news.li.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: hilbert.numerik.math.uni-siegen.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL9] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:5678 David Hoelzer (dhoelzer@gnu.ai.mit.edu) wrote: : Alrighty.. I'm neither new to the BSD or to the Sparc world.. but I've : got quite an interesting problem here. I started with a Sparc 1 that : we had lying around. It had been ploddingly running Solaris 2.5 for : quite sometime and I wanted to lighten it's load, so netBSD seemed a : likely candidate. I've successfully installed the distribution (more : than once at this point, on more than one drive). The system works : fine WHEN it boots up. Half of the time the machine will get past the : SCSI probe, tell me about the framebuffer and then it dies and starts : looping the monitor prompt at me (Boot, N for new command, etc...). : Any ideas? We experience the same behaviour on our SLC with NetBSD 1.2 here. It seems to work better if you explicitly stop the Sparc and issue the boot command from the PROM monitor prompt instead of autobooting - but this doesn't always work. Perhaps this is a problem with old PROM versions ? Our SLC has a rev. 1.4 PROM. regards, Michael Engel (engel@unix-ag.uni-siegen.de)