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Article #826Re: Can Sparc 1+ run Solaris 2.6 or later?
From: Mike N
Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 00:00
Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 00:00
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I think your problem lies in which file the openboot is looking for when you tell it to boot from the CDROM. you may need to do something like: setenv boot-file vmunix at the >ok prompt. As far as 2.6 goes, yea it will run on that configuration but you will for sure want to add some memory to it. Cheers, Mike N Spamblock in use. strip .spamnot to reply On 1 Dec 1999, Jeff Zu wrote: >> >>: > I tried to load Solaris on a Sparc 1+ from cdrom. Wjen typed in boot cdrom >>: > at OpenBoot prompt, I got a message, like the program loaded seems not >>: > excutable. Then stopped. >>: > The machine itself seems working, since it's booting from a hard disk that >>: > I have no password (could I disable the passwaord?) and I can see the cdrom >>: > with the command: probe-scsi. >>: > Is 'boot cdrom' still applicable to Sparc 1+? >>: > Can Sparc 1+ run Solaris 2.6 or later? >>: > If yes, how to load it on sparc 1+?
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f4671,1736b68e775170db X-Google-Attributes: gidf4671,public X-Google-Thread: f6653,1736b68e775170db X-Google-Attributes: gidf6653,public X-Google-Thread: f88e1,1736b68e775170db X-Google-Attributes: gidf88e1,public X-Google-Thread: 1070f0,1736b68e775170db X-Google-Attributes: gid1070f0,public X-Google-Thread: 10d053,2e8381c19c8c5713 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d053,public From: Mike N <twmaster.spamnot@pikesville.net> Subject: Re: Can Sparc 1+ run Solaris 2.6 or later? Date: 1999/12/11 Message-ID: <2r965s0fcl961gjq5fnm0fsd194ksaa53n@4ax.com> X-Deja-AN: 559598098 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <01bf38b8$1e1fc640$LocalHost@cccf> <Pine.GSO.4.10.9912021020040.27779-100000@lios.apana.org.au> <829q3k$6am$1@hek.netix.org.uk> <82unjq$h8s$1@sunsystem5.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> X-Posted-Path-Was: not-for-mail Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-ELN-Date: 12 Dec 1999 04:49:53 GMT X-ELN-Insert-Date: Sat Dec 11 20:55:09 1999 Organization: EarthLink Network, Inc. Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.sys.sun,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.sys.sun.misc,aus.computers.sun