Re: Fail to boot from snapshot bsd.rd on T1000

Fred Crowson wrote:
> Dave Wilson wrote:
>> So I'm thinking its about damn time I pulled my Sun Fire T1000 from 4.4
>> to -current so I can make good on my offers to test diffs.
>>
>> I pull the bsd.rd from
>> ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/sparc64/bsd.rd (dated 22/11/08)
>>
>> The MD5 says it came down OK.
>>
>> I managed to try and boot it, but I got the following:
>>
> 
> Have you tried using your 4.4 bsd.rd to start the installation process
> for 4.4-current snapshot *.tgz files (I'm sure this is not the correct
> way to do it :~[ but I have used it in the past to get a snapshot
> installed) - or you could wait for next snapshot RAMDISK and see if that
> cures the problem....
> 
> HTH
> 
> Fred

Fred,

That was going to be my next thing to try, but I was hoping to help fix
the problem rather than get around it. If no-one who knows better tells
me otherwise, I'll probably try that this afternoon.

Ta,

Si1entDave