> I recently got my hands on a Sun Blade 100 with Solaris 9 installed. While I
> was using Solaris during my universiyt times, nowadays it feels a bit
> awkward, as it seems to be sometimes a bit difficult to adminster. Moreover,
> there seems to be no up-to-date web-browser available for it. OpenCSW.org
> offers a great collection of pre-compiled SW packages, however, these seem to
> be a little outdated as well, as those for Solaris 9 are no longer updated.
> So, a good time to switch over to something different. I'm quite enthusiastic
> about Linux and aslways wanted to try one of the BSD-flavours. I downloaded
> the NetBSD-9.1-ISO and burnt it on a CD. While the booting from CDROM seems
> to work quite ok at first sight, the kernel hangs at "admtemp0: workqueue
> busy: updates stopped" and I have not the slightest idea, what this could
> mean. The sensor shwos up earlier in the boot log, but seems to be ok.
>
> Any hints?
Not sure how related this is, but there was a thread about boot problems
about a year ago here:
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-sparc64/2020/06/24/msg002950.html
I don't remember what specifically was the issue, but this suggests that
it has been addressed:
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-sparc64/2020/06/25/msg002974.html
However, it might not've gotten in to 9.1. Can you try a 9.2 ISO and see
if that works?
Thanks,
John
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