Re: non-free firmware
Hi Rick!
On 03/21/2017 08:06 AM, Rick Leir wrote:
> (On a SunBlade 2000 (circa 2002) with two Cu processors and 1800M RAM, booting from the CDROM): I tapped on the 'choose language, choose keyboard, choose..'
> screen a bit and it jumped ahead without me being finished there. OK, now I understand: the fourth item is 'Detect and mount CD-ROM', and I must have chosen that.
If you are installing over a serial console, you are most likely running into this bug [1].
> Now it is telling me that I need some non-free firmware, filename ql2200_fw.bin, and that I should load it from removable media. Does this firmware matter, and
> where can I get it? There is something by that name on the qlogic.com site. I guess it could be for the FibreChannel interface. OK, ignoring it for now.
Yeah, that's the firmware for a QLogic FibreChannel controller. If you don't need it for
the installation - assuming you don't install on a FibreChannel block device - just skip
it.
> After doing 'set up users and passwords' correctly it goes on to 'Configure the clock'. It returns from that immediately without doing anything. I was hoping to
> set the timezone.
Again, this is most likely the issue as described in [1]. Try selecting items using individual
characters on the keyboard (e.g. "a", "b", "c") which correspond to the initial letters of the
item in the list.
> Now it is doing 'Detecting disks'. Gee, it took a long time on that, maybe a few minutes. Then it says 'No disk drive was detected' and gives me a list of
> drivers to select from. I am guessing now: qla2xxx ... long pause, then I am back to the list of drivers screen. Try 'qla1280' ... 'qla4xxx' .. help! I think
> the disk hardware is OK because OpenBSD is installed and can boot. What can I use for a disk driver? How could I load the ql2200_fw.bin?
What kind of controller/disk setup are you trying to install on? You can scroll up and check
what's in the kernel log in your serial terminal.
Adrian
> [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=854588
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