[SunRescue] Issues with 2.4 OBP on IPC?

[Mike Hebel]

Has anybody had any problems getting things to boot properly under version
2.4 of the OBP on an IPC?

I'm having trouble booting certain kernels such as OpenBSD, (but not
NetBSD), sometimes SUSE Sparc - although the last one may be my disks.
OpenBSD 2.8 will load the kernel but hang after giving me a warning about
how the clock gained "foo" number of days.  SUSE Sparc sometimes won't
recognize the console properly however things like NetBSD and Debian SPARC
seem to work fine.

I'd really like to get OpenBSD 2.8 working on it but I tried removing the
second Ethernet card (LEO + SCSI) as well as swapping the prom to a 1.6
version I had lying around.  I can't get the 1.6 version to even boot the CD
let alone the kernel!  I even tried the 2.4 OBP and other parts in a
different IPC board and got the same results.

I'm just puzzled as to what to check - the CDROM is a Toshiba XM5301 which
has booted other OS's without issue, I set sunmon-compat? according to the
OpenBSD instructions, I even considered waving a dead chicken over it.  It
was running previously with NetBSD without any issues so I didn't think
OpenBSD would be that much of a problem.

Here's the specs: IPC, 48meg, second network card (LEO + SE SCSI), 540meg
Compaq SCSI drive, BW framebuffer, headless, icky property stickers still on
it.

Any ideas guys?  What do I need to do sacrifice a flock of chickens?

Mike Hebel