[OpenBIOS] sparc32 status

Stefan Reinauer stepan at coresystems.de
Wed Jun 7 20:35:41 CEST 2006


* Stefan Reinauer <stepan at coresystems.de> [060607 18:03]:
> * Parag Patel <parag at codegen.com> [060607 17:21]:
> > >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):
>  
> > 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.
>  
> It seems it wants something like
> /iommu at 0,10000000/sbus at 0,10001000/espdma at 4,8400000/esp at 4,8800000/sd at 2,0:b
> as the device

Weird:

device[sd(0,2,0):b] ("halt" to halt): cdrom
boot (press RETURN to try default list): netbsd
Booting netbsd
-
device[cdrom] ("halt" to halt):


It prints no error, but does not do anything either.


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