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

On Fri, May 31, 2024 at 11:53 AM Riccardo Mottola
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 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
>
>
>         |
>
>         >*b sd(,,1)netbsd -s*
>
>         |
>
> OpenBoot PROM 1
>
>
>         |
>
>         ok*boot sd(,,1)netbsd -s*
>
>         |
>
> OpenBoot PROM 2
>
>
>         |
>
>         ok*boot disk:b netbsd -s*
>
>         |
>
>
> being in "1.4" i used the second command, why I was in "sunmon" mode....

It just defaults to sunmon mode. You can get out of it by typing n,
you can disable it permanently with setenv sunmon-compat? false.