Re: Sun Fire V215 ALOM troubles

On Thu, Jun 05, 2025 at 02:34:42PM -0400, Mouse wrote:
> > I recently acquired a Sun Fire V215 at a very convenient price,
> > [...].  [...locked out of ALOM...]
> 
> Why do you care about the ALOM?

Being able to get into the SUN equivalent of a BMC is useful for machine
diagnostics and startup settings, among other things.

>  I'd try installing onto a disk on
> another machine, then moving it into the V215.  If it refuses to boot
> because the disk or its contents have been changed, _then_ you may have
> to give up on making it useful, but it seems to me that's worth at
> least trying.
> 
> Are you sure it's a SPARC?  My Sun Fire is actually x86.

The "Sun Fire" label covers a broad range of ... machines.
The Sun Fire V215 is an UltraSPARC IIIi (2x CPU, up to 8G RAM)
machine, which makes it a sparc64.

Kind regards,
            Alex.
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