NetBSD Problem Report #37749

From jmcneill@grey.invisible.ca  Sun Jan 13 21:52:15 2008
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Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 16:56:19 -0500 (EST)
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Subject: Non-fatal FATAL message on 4.0 sparc64 INSTALL boot
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>Number:         37749
>Category:       port-sparc64
>Synopsis:       Non-fatal FATAL message on 4.0 sparc64 INSTALL boot
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    martin
>State:          closed
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Jan 13 21:55:00 +0000 2008
>Closed-Date:    Thu Jan 17 08:16:04 +0000 2019
>Last-Modified:  Thu Jan 17 08:16:04 +0000 2019
>Originator:     Jared D. McNeill
>Release:        NetBSD 4.0
>Organization:

>Environment:


System: NetBSD grey.invisible.ca 4.0 NetBSD 4.0 (GENERIC) #0: Sun Jan 13 15:54:37 EST 2008 jmcneill@black.invisible.ca:/export/home/jmcneill/scratch/obj/sys/arch/sparc64/compile/GENERIC sparc64
Architecture: sparc64
Machine: sparc64
>Description:
	Upon booting the 4.0 sparc64 install CD, I see the following FATAL
	message printed. The message isn't fatal though, as I am able to
	complete an install.

	cd0 at atapibus0 drive 0: <CRD-8322B, 1998/09/24, 1.05> cdrom removable
	cd0: drive supports PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2
	cd0(cmdide0:1:0): using PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2 (using DMA)
	FATAL: boot device not found, check your firmware settings!
	root on md0a dumps on md0b
	root file system type: ffs
>How-To-Repeat:
	Boot the 4.0 install CD on an Ultra 5.
>Fix:


>Release-Note:

>Audit-Trail:

Responsible-Changed-From-To: port-sparc64-maintainer->martin
Responsible-Changed-By: martin@netbsd.org
Responsible-Changed-When: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 23:31:11 +0000
Responsible-Changed-Why:
I think I know what's going on


State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
State-Changed-By: martin@NetBSD.org
State-Changed-When: Thu, 17 Jan 2019 08:16:04 +0000
State-Changed-Why:
The message (back then) was not fatal because MD with install image overrode
the boot device anyway. This has changed, we now boot with root on cd0a.
The boot device matching and the bootloader info passed have been extended,
so nowadays it should be ~impossible to not find the boot device if
(a) OF can load the kernel and (b) we attach the device in the kernel.


>Unformatted:

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