[rescue] Sun2: Looking for the 1.X Boot PROMs

[Josh Dersch]

On Sat, Apr 21, 2018 at 10:23 AM, <walter+rescue at belgers.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Duh, Rev R was the version that was already known. I misread that part.
>
> Anyway I can confirm that you can set up a NetBSD box with ndbootd from
> Matt
> Fredette and the Sun2 will boot from it using network disk (ND) for
> fetching
> the kernel and then NFS as usual, see
> https://giga.nl/walter/computers/sun2_boot.gif
> <https://giga.nl/walter/computers/sun2_boot.gif>
> This is my Sun 2/50, apparantly it has the Rev Q ROM. It is somewhere hard
> to
> reach, when I get the time Ib ll read those ROMs as well and add them to
> the
> tar file.
>
>
Not that this helps the original poster, but my Sun-2/150 came with Rev M
PROMs, I've dumped them here for posterity:

http://yahozna.dyndns.org/scratch/sun2/proms/

(I also stashed a ton of early docs I scanned at
http://yahozna.dyndns.org/scratch/sun/)

- Josh