Re: Booting 10.0 from CD on Sparc IPC fails - Data Access Exception

On Mon, May 27, 2024 at 1:10 PM Julian Coleman <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> > >> NetBSD/sparc Secondary Boot, Revision 1.15 (Thu Mar 28 08:33:33 UTC 2024)
> > Booting netbsd
> > Data Access Exception
> >
> > I know the CD-ROM is good because the SS20 booted it.
> >
> > I wonder if this is the problem with the boot loader? I was under the false
> > impression that it was solved.
>
> I had some patches a while ago but didn't get a tester for any machines that
> have problems with the current code.  The patches are still at:
>
>   https://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/jdc/sparc/boot/
>
> If it would be helpful, I could build an ISO image for 10.0 with this patch
> applied.

I have lots of 4c machines with several different ROMs I can test on.
I just booted the 10.0 ISO on an ss1 w/ v1.0 ROM and had no problems
aside from it saying the sbus clock was 25MHz.
What versions of the ROM are having problems?