Re: OpenBSD boot fails on V890

Wow, that sucks. I knew it was too good to be true.

Quick, try the fix! :-)

Randy


On Tue, December 1, 2009 5:54 pm, blue wrote:
> Hey Mark
>
> Thanks for organising a potential fix, I'll give it a try in a few hours.
>
>
> I won't have this machine for much longer... the Police called earlier
> today and informed me that the machine was stolen, sold to an auction
> house, auctioned to a junkyard and then sold to me. They'll probably
> collect it in the next three days. They're refunding me, but still...
> pitty I can't keep the machine :( .
>
> Aaron
>
> _____ From: Mark Kettenis [mailto:[email protected]] To:
> [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Sent: Wed, 02 Dec 2009 00:47:26
> +0200 Subject: Re: OpenBSD boot fails on V890
>
>> From: blue <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:29:22 +0200
>>
>> Many thanks for looking into this issue :) and yes, Solaris is still on
>> the box.
>>
>> This is so cool, I'm at my office at the moment... I can log in to a
>> machine on my home LAN via SSH, then from that machine telnet into the
>> RSC on the Sun server... and power it on.
>
> Welcome to the world of real computers!
>
>>> Just let me know if you have any ideas or you'd like me to try
>>> something that might fix it/make it work/help you fix it.
>>
>> I'll get back to you as soon as I've had a chance to decode that nasty
>> schizo error.
>
> The error is a little bit puzzling, since it indicates there's nothing
> wrong.  But I committed a potential fix, and snapshots with that fix are
> out now.  You should be able to download them from
> pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/sparc64 on your favourite mirror.  Could you give
> that a go?