no go on Ultra 10 ?

no go on Ultra 10 ?

[Edwin Kremer]

Hi,

I'm trying to boot the 'tftpboot.img' file on a Sun Ultra 10 Creator3D
(the simple one, no Elite's). After loading the images:

	29ba00 TILO

	root child is f002ca28

appears and there's a blinking mouse pointer in the upper left corner
of the screen. That's where it stops...

Any hints? `sysinfo' output (from Solaris 2.6) appears below:


SUNW,Ultra-5_10 is a "SUNW,375-0009"
    openprom is a "Open Boot PROM" device
    options is a "PROM Settings"
    aliases is a "PROM Device Aliases"
    pci0 is a "PCI Bus" system bus
        pci108e,50000 is a "Simba PCI" system bus
            ebus0 is a "OnBoard E Bus"
                auxio is a "Auxiliary I/O"
                se0 is a Siemens 82532 ESCC serial device
                su0 is a Serial U communications chip serial device
                    kbd is a "Sun Type-5 US PC" Keyboard
                su1 is a Serial U communications chip serial device
                ecpp is a "IEEE 1284 ECP, Nibble, and Centronics compatible" parallel port
                fd0 is a Floppy Three disk drive
                eeprom is a "EEPROM" device
                flashprom is a "Flash PROM"
                audiocs0 is a "Crystal Semiconductor 4231" audio device
            hme0 is a "Sun Fast Ethernet" 10/100 Mb/sec Ethernet network interface
            m640 is a "PGX PCI 8-bit [m64]" frame buffer
                monitor0 is a video monitor
            pci1095,6460 is a "PCI 1095 646" IDE disk controller
                c0t0d0 (dad0) is a "Seagate Medalist 34342A" 4.0 GB disk drive
                atapicd2 is a ATA CD-ROM drive
        pci108e,50001 is a "Simba PCI" system bus
    ffb0 is a "Creator3D 24-bit UPA Color Graphics" frame buffer
    cpu0 is a "299 MHz SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIi" CPU


Best regards,

-- 
Edwin H. Kremer, systems- and network administrator.          <edwin@cs.uu.nl>
Dept. of Computer Science,  Utrecht University, The Netherlands  [WHOIS: ehk3]
-------------------- http://www.cs.uu.nl/people/edwin/ -----------------------

Re: no go on Ultra 10 ?

[Jakub Jelinek]

> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to boot the 'tftpboot.img' file on a Sun Ultra 10 Creator3D
> (the simple one, no Elite's). After loading the images:
> 
> 	29ba00 TILO
> 
> 	root child is f002ca28
> 
> appears and there's a blinking mouse pointer in the upper left corner
> of the screen. That's where it stops...
> 
> Any hints? `sysinfo' output (from Solaris 2.6) appears below:

I guess your Mach64 is being used as the console and not Creator.
To find this out, do
boot net console=prom
to see which fb is going to be used.
Kernels prior to yesterday had higher priority for Mach64 than for Creator.
I guess that's your case. What you can do:
either connect a monitor to mach64, or give it something like
boot video=atyfb:off
or use 
boot video=map:1

Cheers,
    Jakub
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Re: no go on Ultra 10 ?

[Edwin Kremer]

On Thu, Nov 12, 1998 at 04:21:10PM +0100, Jakub Jelinek wrote:

  : > appears and there's a blinking mouse pointer in the upper left corner
  : > of the screen. That's where it stops...
  : 
  : I guess your Mach64 is being used as the console and not Creator.

Direct hit; bulls-eye!

  : boot video=atyfb:off

This works very well. Installation (via NFS) went pretty smooth. I'm
deeply impressed! (598.02 BogoMIPS)

I learned something today! :-)

Best regards,

-- 
Edwin H. Kremer, systems- and network administrator.          <edwin@cs.uu.nl>
Dept. of Computer Science,  Utrecht University, The Netherlands  [WHOIS: ehk3]
-------------------- http://www.cs.uu.nl/people/edwin/ -----------------------

Re: no go on Ultra 10 ?

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Jakub Jelinek wrote:

> I guess your Mach64 is being used as the console and not Creator.
> To find this out, do
> boot net console=prom
> to see which fb is going to be used.
> Kernels prior to yesterday had higher priority for Mach64 than for Creator.
> I guess that's your case. What you can do:
> either connect a monitor to mach64, or give it something like
> boot video=atyfb:off
> or use 
> boot video=map:1

(Having just been hit by my ultra 1 with a cgsix and creator getting that
far and losing, and still not having figured out how to get it to boot...)

I suppose figuring things out based on the sbus probe list is out of the
question?

-D

Re: no go on Ultra 10 ?

[Derrick J Brashear]

Disregard. Upgrading from 2.1.125 to 2.1.126 fixed the problem. Weird.

-D