Trouble jumpstarting SPARCstation 10
Jeff Woolsey <[email protected]>
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I have a SPARCstation 10 I'm trying to clean off after decommissioning and install the latest OS that works there. That would be Solaris 9 Update 7 for sun4m. This is the release that the machine was running. However, doing boot net of this same boot image panics the machine (trying to mount root?). Same for Solaris 8 and 7. CD booting Solaris 7 doesn't panic (and presumably 8 and 9 wouldn't either, but as I'm preparing to divest of most of this Sun hardware, I don't have many SCSI CDROMs around (I have a Toshiba 3401, which is either 1X or 2X, and it can't find a bootblk on the Solaris 8, and cannot read the Solaris 9 CD-R I found) and I don't know. All of these netboot images work on my other two sun4m systems, a SPARCstation 5 and a SPARCstation 20. The only odd thing I can think of about the 10 is that it has a PrestoServe DIMM in it. Also, the 10's CPUs are 75MHz, and the 20s are 85MHz. Has anyone run into this problem, and/or have a solution I haven't tried yet that works? These three systems are very nearly available for the asking to Silicon Valley locals... Jeff Woolsey