Re: OpenBSD boot fails on V890

Hi Guys

Sorry for taking so long to get back to you regarding this machine and
the potential fix... had some heavy duty busi-ness lately.

I tried the image on the machine... and I got :
"
Use (A)uto layout, (E)dit auto layout, or create (C)ustom layout? [a] a
isp0: unsupported cdb length (0, CDB[0]=0x35)
"

I would assume this is either a corrupt image or a medium error. I'll
re-download the image again and try again.

For those of you that are interested... it turns out the machines aren't
stolen... they're rightfully mine and some (insert meow here) was trying
to get them off me for use in his data centre. The whole thing has
involved lawyers and googling and driving 50kms just to hand a bank
cheque to a lawyer. All this for a machine that cost me less than Guitar
Hero (which I don't play, but my friends like it).

But yes... the machines are mine. They've been setup in their new home
in an empty office on a power supply I get for free :) . 

I'll keep you up to date.

Thanks for your trouble.


Aaron

On Tue, 2009-12-01 at 19:24 -0500, Randal T. Rioux wrote:
> 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?