On 2021-11-04 4:04 p.m., Ted Bullock wrote:
On 2021-11-02 5:36 p.m., Ted Bullock wrote:
Reporting an issue that is causing my SunBlade 100 (ultrasparc64)
workstation to be unable too boot.
I've identified the malfunctioning component that is causing installs
after 6.7 to fail for this system, although I'm not certain yet which
patch broke things for this system.
I've done further testing on ofwboot. The version in 7.0 and snapshots
is very broken, and appears to entirely mangle the root filesystem of
sparc64 machines that use wd(4) boot devices to the point that it's
necessary to reinstall entirely between testing attempts. (I've had a
friend test on an ultra 10 and encountered the same fault)
The current workaround I am using is to install and before the first
boot, manually copy a working version of ofwboot from the 6.7 release.
Note that ofwboot from 6.8 and 6.9, while broken, don't seem to mangle
the filesystem entirely like the version in snapshots does.
I gather from the lack of response to the bug reports that the platform
and impacted systems are low priority, so I don't want to impose too
much on the devs here. I would like to bisect the various patches to
ofwboot to find the fault but I need some guidance on how to build the
program (in sys/arch/sparc64/stand) since my first several attempts
don't seem to have produced a working binary.
Thanks guys
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Ted Bullock <[email protected]>
