On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 03:06:09AM -0400, Rick Leir wrote:
Hi all,
I am just trying out Adrian's latest iso (thanks Adrian!!).
(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.
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.
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.
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?
I think you'd have to create yourself a USB stick with
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/firmware/unstable/current/
on it. (Assuming your hardware knows how to read from usb)
HTH, Bye,
Joost