On 23/12/13 03:02, Peter Bartoli wrote: Hi Peter,
Very welcome! Thanks for the awesome software. It's allowed me to put my SparcServer 5 out to pasture as a demonstration machine. Really, really hoping that it supports the tcx with OBP at some point soon ... that'd be very cool. I filed a separate bug report on that before realizing that it didn't work quite by design/limitation; please pardon my ignorance.
Thanks for the feedback. Actually it does boot in TCX mode with the FCode ROM attached to this bug report - well at least you can boot into OBP. If you're running Solaris, then the problem is that their version of X doesn't have a TCX driver and so boot hangs after "Starting OpenWindows". Other OS such as Linux do have a TCX driver and so work fine.
I currently have patches for a CG3 framebuffer pending that will enable you to boot Solaris into graphics mode, which I hope will be applied soon.
Also Artyom's blog is quite out of date with respect to OpenBIOS - OpenBIOS has been able to boot my test Solaris 8 image for over 2 years now so you may find that you can get by without the proprietary Sun ROM (and avoid having to manually type a boot command into OBP every time you restart). Unfortunately the OpenBIOS binaries for 1.7 also have a bug that breaks booting from hard disks (CDROMs are fine), but the updated binaries should be merged into git in time for the next 1.7.x release.
HTH, Mark.
