[OpenBIOS] Solaris anyone? Q2

[Brian Vandenberg]

  I've been trying to get solaris 8 to install, but I've been running
into problems.

  After creating/formatting a disk in single-user mode, I reboot and
start the install.  It copies the installer to /dev/c0t0d0s1 and
reboots.  On startup, it gets to "Running in command line mode" then
seems to endlessly do nothing.

  Is how long should I wait before I can safely assume it isn't going
to continue/succeed?

  For reference, I'm running qemu with:

./qemu-system-sparc -cdrom solaris8_install.iso -nographic -prom-env
'auto-boot?=false' -m 256 -L . -bios openbios-sparc32_artyom.bin -hda
/scratch/qemu-images/solaris2.8.qcow2

  ... and booting with:

boot disk0:b

  Usually I use the -v, but I forgot it for the current attempt.
Unfortunately, I can't copy logs over from the airgapped network, but
if needs be I can manually type up relevant portions.

  I'm unsure whether it would help, but when I attempt to install with
the SS-5 bios image I get the following:

(...)
SunOS Release 5.8 Versio nGeneric_108528-29 32-bit
Copyright 1983-2003 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All rights reserved.
Cannot assemble drivers for root
/iommu at 0,10000000/sbus at 0,10001000/espdma at 5,84000000/esp at 5,88000000/sd at 0,0:b
Cannot mount root on
/iommu at 0,10000000/sbus at 0,10001000/espdma at 5,84000000/esp at 5,88000000/sd at 0,0:b
fstype ufs

panic[cpu0]/thread=f0244020: vfs_mountroot: cannot mount root

(...)

  ... which is followed by 4 lines of stuff that looks somewhat like a
stack dump.

  So, I suppose what I'm looking for is: how patient should I be
before I decide that the installation with openbios won't succeed?

-Brian