Re: 4/670 in a 4/330 case

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From: Davin Milun
Date: Sat, 05 Sep 1998 00:00

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Craig Dewick <cdewick@lios.apana.org.au> wrote:
�In <Ey5xtF.80u.0.hotlips@GTS.Net> bdb@GTS.Net (Hello Kittyhawk) writes:
�
�>	1. 4/6xx can't boot from a 2.6 CD-ROM
�
�What you probably should say is that the 4/6xx machines are no longer
�supported as of SunOS 5.6 (aka Solaris 2.6), although if you don't need VME
�it is *possible* to manually patch a 5.6 kernel to work on the 4/6xx, but
�this is not sanctioned by Sun.
�
�Someone posted the method to do this, but I'm not sure if anyone saved the
�details...

I found it at:
  http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=295086329

For the 2.6 HW3/96 release those instructions moved slightly.
The main "call halt" in question now seems to be at startup+0x74c
(rather than startup+0x760)

I have a 4/630 with a SM61 up and running Solaris 2.6.

Note that you need to repatch the kernel whenever you install a new kernel
patch (obviously).

Davin.
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From: milun@cs.buffalo.edu (Davin Milun)
Subject: Re: 4/670 in a 4/330 case
Date: 1998/09/05
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