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
