Re: Install Fails on T5240

On Fri, Jul 25, 2025 at 12:21 PM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Jeremy,
>
> On Fri, 2025-07-25 at 06:42 -0400, Jeremy Leonard wrote:
> > I was attempting a bare-metal install.
>
> Could you test whether Solaris 11.4 CBE works fine on your T5240?
>

Solaris 11.4 requires SPARC T4 or later; the latest Solaris to support the
T5240 was
11.3.

(Another possible test of the hardware is illumos as in Tribblix which
works very well on
my T5140s - http://tribblix.org/download.html#sparc - or possibly
OpenIndiana.)


> See:
> https://www.oracle.com/de/solaris/solaris11/downloads/solaris-downloads.html
>
> It's free for non-commercial use.
>
> Adrian
>
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