Re: Ultra10 problems with -current

Eduardo Horvath <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.sparc64
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, 1 Nov 2011, Christos Zoulas wrote:

> On Nov 1,  9:24pm, [email protected] (Sad Clouds) wrote:
> -- Subject: Re: Ultra10 problems with -current
> 
> | Well I managed to install -current to hard disk, but unfortunately it
> | doesn't boot, I get something like:
> | 
> | Invalid superblock magic, Fast MMU miss...
> | 
> | That is with FFSv2 on /, also tried FFSv1 on / but bootloader simply
> | hangs.
> 
> I believe that you need FFSv1 on / to boot from the sun proms.
> I have not tried re-installing recently. I guess I could try an emulator.

No, I've booted with LFS on / before.  I don't know how good the FFSv2 
support in the bootblocks is.  I know it was implemented in -current, but 
I don't remember is being thoroughly tested the way FFSv1 and LFS were.

Eduardo
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