Boot Problems with OpenBSD 3.3/sparc

From: Bob Daley <daley(at)cs.pitt.edu>
Date: Sat Jun 07 2003 - 22:14:07 EDT

I just installed OpenBSD 3.3 on a Sun SparcStation 5 (ROM Rev. 2.15). After partitioning the disk with ample space for / swap /var /tmp /usr and /home, I installed all the required packages (from the CDROM) and I got a successful install with no error messages. After halting the system I did the recommended

	setenv boot-file bsd
	setenv boot-device /sbus/esp/sd@0,0

and then reset the system. When it rebooted, it gave the following message:

	Boot device: /sbus/esp/sd@0,0  File and args: bsd
	Can't open boot device
	

I repeated the install several times and got the same result. Any suggestions?

I am currently running OpenBSD 2.7 on my firewall PC. The reason for installing it on a sparc was to have it installed on a redundant machine before I replaced my firewall. On the 2.7 system I am running sshd -q, which I recall I had to download separately at the time from openbsd.org. However, I can't seems to find any ssh package anymore at the site. Is it available? Is it replaced by some form of ssl or stunnel? Do I get it from OpenSSH? Any help on this point would be greatly appreciated.

Lastly, my 2.7 machine has a DC21x4x based Ethernet board, but I don't find the de0 interface name mentioned anywhere in the install.i386 file. Would this be a problem if I tried to upgrade from 2.7 to 3.3?

	Thanks for any help,
		Bob Daley  

Received on Sat Jun 7 22:22:32 2003