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

foo bar <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.sparc
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On Tue, May 28, 2024 at 11:22 AM Riccardo Mottola
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>
> foo bar wrote:
> > 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?
>
> I have:
> Can't open input device.
> SPARCstation IPC, No Keyboard
> ROM Rev. 2.4, 48 MB memory installed, Serial #12713634.

IPC actually has a dual ROM, you can switch to v1.7 with "setenv
version2? false". Obviously any sbus cards that require openboot 2
won't work tho. See if you can boot from that.
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