[OpenBIOS] sparc32 status

[Parag Patel]

>NetBSD booting from CD:
>
>  [sparc] Booting file 'cdrom' without parameters.
>  Loading a.out image...
>  Loaded 8388615 bytes
>  entry point is 0x4000
>  Jumping to entry point...
>  obmem:>> NetBSD/sparc Secondary Boot, Revision 1.15
>  >> (builds at b3.netbsd.org, Mon Dec 19 03:43:03 UTC 2005)
>  Booting diag
>  Cannot load diag: error=20
> 
>  device[sd(0,2,0):b] ("halt" to halt):

Interesting - it seems to be picking up the diag-file setting from OF
- the name "diag" - perhaps because "diag-switch?" is set to true.  That
implies that the loader is making calls into OF and getting at least
some stuff it likes.

In any case, it's now at the BSD device prompt, which is also good.  You
should be able to type in a BSD-style boot-spec here to disk, partition,
and name of the kernel here.  Unfortunately Sparc-to-BSD device mapping
is a bit funky so you may have to grep through the BSD docs for details.

If you typed in "bsd" at the above prompt, it should try to load the
file named "bsd" from the default device listed above in square
brackets.


>NetBSD kernel directly:
>
>  [sparc] Kernel already loaded
>  OBP version 3, revision 2.25 (plugin rev 2)
>  Copyright (c) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005
>      The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.  All rights reserved.
>  Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
>      The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
>  
>  NetBSD 3.0 (GENERIC) #0: Mon Dec 19 04:01:27 UTC 2005
>          builds at b3.netbsd.org:/home/builds/ab/netbsd-3-0-RELEASE/sparc/200512182024Z-
>obj/home/builds/ab/netbsd-3-0-RELEASE/src/sys/arch/sparc/compile/GENERIC
>  total memory = 127 MB
>  avail memory = 120 MB
>  bootpath:
>  data fault: pc=0xf02a4f3c addr=0x7ff000
>  sfsr=126<PERR=0,LVL=1,AT=1,FT=1,FAV,OW>
>  panic: kernel fault
>  halted

As a guess it's trying to print or create the "bootpath" and hit a bad
or uninitialized pointer - 0x7ff000.  It got the total and available
memory, so at least that's good.  Pity it halted instead of dropping
into the BSD debugger - you could get a stack-trace then.

It may be trying to get args from the OF "boot" command, which should
pass args to the loaded image.  Perhaps it doesn't have any args, or
perhaps they're bogus?
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