PROM version 4.6.5 bad for Sun Blades? (was: Problem booting Sun Blade 100 with Debian install media)

[Arne Nordmark <nordmark@mech.kth.se>]

Ben Collins wrote:
> > Thus USB, IDE, and serial dbootstrap all seems to be broken for me, (and 
> > the machine still runs Solaris without any problems).
>
>
> Very puzzling to me. My Blade (including IDE and USB) is booting just
> fine. I installed from the exact same images. I use this machine as my
> primary desktop and I've yet to see one bit of trouble from it.
>
> I'm baffled, to say the least.

Hello,

As Alvaro Figueroa found out, the problems I had seems to be due to the 
OpenPROM version 4.6.5. When I backed the version to 4.5.9 (also from 
the 111179-05 patch) all problems magically disappeared, and the machine 
is running woody fine now.

Thanks a lot,
Arne

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