Re: Ross boot prom chip wanted
On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, Martin Habets wrote:
FYI, the firmware is available at
http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/sun-bootroms/
Thanks for the pointer.
Jurij, nNot sure if I could resurect my cobbled-up programmer and burn one
for you. What country are you in? I think there is a guy in Australia
doing this kind of stuff on a regular basis. I'm in UK myself.
I have found http://mbus.sunhelp.org/ which states that all the HyperSparc
processors up to 150MHz should work with prom version 2.25 *or* 2.25r, and
I have 2.25 installed. So the problems I'm seeing are not related to the
prom versions. And I was finally able to resolve most of them, even though
it was a pretty bumpy ride.
First of all, any attempt to install using 2.4 kernel from Sarge would
result in "Watchdog Reset" and system dropping back to prom during the
second stage boot. The 2.6.8 kernel from Sarge flatly refused to detect
the hard drives. Whenever it came to partitioning, it would say "No
partitionable media found", or the installer would hang on "Scanning
disks", depending on how lucky one is. Logs were full of messages like
esp0: SCSI bus reset interrupt
scsi: Device offlined - not ready after error recovery: host 0 channel 0 id 3 lun 6
scsi0 (3:6): rejecting I/O to offline device
sdg: Unit Not Ready, error = 0x4000002
scsi0 (3:6): rejecting I/O to offline device
scsi0 (3:6): rejecting I/O to offline device
scsi0 (3:6): rejecting I/O to offline device
sdg : READ CAPACITY failed.
sdg : status=1, message=00, host=0, driver=04
sdg : sense not available.
scsi0 (3:6): rejecting I/O to offline device
sdg: asking for cache data failed
sdg: assuming drive cache: write through
Attached scsi disk sdg at scsi0, channel 0, id 3, lun 6
esp0: target 3 [period 100ns offset 15 10.00MHz FAST SCSI-II]
esp0: Resetting scsi bus
esp0: SCSI bus reset interrupt
esp0: SCSI bus reset interrupt
scsi: Device offlined - not ready after error recovery: host 0 channel 0 id 3 lun 7
scsi0 (3:7): rejecting I/O to offline device
scsi0 (3:7): rejecting I/O to offline device
sdh: Unit Not Ready, error = 0x4000002
scsi0 (3:7): rejecting I/O to offline device
scsi0 (3:7): rejecting I/O to offline device
scsi0 (3:7): rejecting I/O to offline device
sdh : READ CAPACITY failed.
This is strange, because the disks were detected fine with 2.4.27.
Finally, I've installed 2.6.10 kernel, which was the last of the kernels I
remember working reliably on sparc32. And it did not have such problems!
So the machine is up and running now and I just need to try and build
latest kernels and see how they perform there.
Thanks for all the help,
Jurij Smakov jurij@wooyd.org
Key: http://www.wooyd.org/pgpkey/ KeyID: C99E03CC
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