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

Riccardo Mottola <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.sparc
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

Mouse wrote:
> The old ROM code uses only one character for the command.  The command
> is "b", not "boot".  Your "boot" is taken as "b oot", ie, `please boot
> the kernel named "oot" from the default device', with the
> "sd(,,1)netbsd -s" being args to this "oot" kernel.  (The default
> device in your case is presumably sd(0,0,0).)
>
> This then fails, naturally enough.  You then specify something more
> likely to work

my fault... I was confused because the installation procedure shows.

sunmon


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        >*b sd(,,1)netbsd -s*

        | 

OpenBoot PROM 1


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        ok*boot sd(,,1)netbsd -s*

        | 

OpenBoot PROM 2


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        ok*boot disk:b netbsd -s*

        | 


being in "1.4" i used the second command, why I was in "sunmon" mode....

Riccardo
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