Install Freebsd 8 on SunBlade 2500

[pauloperes]

Hello,

I'm trying install Freebsd 8 on Sparc SunBlade 2500, but during boot processing the system stop, i receive a message: jumping to kernel entry at 0x0....

How I solve this?


Regards,

Paulo

[mmoll]

Hi,

it seems your framebuffer is an unsupported one. Try to install without keyboard via serial console.

[pauloperes]

I installed Freebsd via console, but the boot i received this message

not an elf file
program terminated

[mmoll]

not an elf file
program terminated

Could you post a bit more of the output before this message? Are you sure the machine is booting from the correct disk?

[pauloperes]

I will verify this.

[pauloperes]

So, this boot device is correct.

I receive this message?

Freebsd/sparc64 boot block
Boot path: /pci@1d,700000/scsi@4/disk@0.,0:a
Boot loader: /boot/boot1

Not an ELF file
Program terminated

I have only device, disk0.

[mmoll]

Hm, hard to tell what's going wrong here... Have you already upgraded the firmware of the box to the latest version? Which version of FreeBSD 8 ware you using exactly (although I think everything on SB2500 should be supported with 8.0-RELEASE)?

[pauloperes]

This openboot is version: 4.9.5

On the site of the Freebsd I saw this before install

Starting with 7.2-RELEASE, sparc64 systems based on UltraSPARC III and beyond are also supported by FreeBSD, which includes the following known working systems:

*

Sun Blade 1000
*

Sun Blade 1500
*

Sun Blade 2000
*

Sun Blade 2500

[mmoll]

This openboot is version: 4.9.5


Then I would advise an update before everything else. The current version is 4.30.4.a.

[pauloperes]

Hi,

When I boot via console, without monitor and stop+a, the boot process normally, if with monitor plugged after stop+A I received this message: jumping to kernel..