2007/6/7, Maxim Belooussov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > I'm starting to suspect hardware, because even with this OBP upgrade i > > didn't manage to start the install of FreeBSD/sparc, NetBSD/sparc64, and > > various flavors of Linux/Sparc. All the installers start a kernel, and > hangs > > at various places in kernel startup. It's not a question of serial > console > > redirection, because i can ping the host when the boot starts, and it > > doesn't respond to pings as soon as it stalls during boot process. (And > i > > don't have a db25 compatible serial cable..). > > > > Could it be memory ? hard disk ? Box has a 256mb + 512mb , and i don't > know > > a way to test this memory without os on the box. Smth like memconf > > http://myweb.cableone.net/4schmidts/memconf.html or memtest for sparc > would > > be appreciated. > > > > remove one of the ram sticks and try again? >
Ok, so sorry for all this noise, this was a hw issue. 'set diag-switch? true' at OBP prompt showed POST errors on DIMM1, I swapped both memory modules, and POST was happy. In five minutes, box was installed, and now happily runs -current. I really should learn OBP diagnostic commands. Definitely, this couldn't be an OpenBSD issue :) Thanks again to all devs for such a wonderful OS. Landry Dmesg for the record : http://gruiik.info/stuff/dmesg.lizzy
