Hi all, I have a strange problem installing Solaris versions > 11/06 on an Ultra 5. After I type "boot cdrom", the CDROM spins a bit and then I get a "Fast Data Access MMU Miss" error. These versions used to work on this machine!
(Apparently this error message is a generic, catch all error message and doesn't just relate to the Memory Management Unit.) I've tried various versions of Solaris/OpenSolaris that have been burnt in a myriad of ways (and the disks work on my E250 and E450 and used to work on the Ultra 5). I've tried different different CD/DVD drives in the machine. I've tried different hard drives. I've tried different IDE cables (both 40 and 80 conductor cables). I've pulled out the motherboard and cleaned all the contacts (CPU, memory, re-seated jumpers, PCI cards/slots, dusted EVERYTHING off and re-seated the BIOS chip. (Actually, it began installing Solaris 10/08 so I stopped it and tried 5/09 (thinking it was fixed). That didn't work and when I retried 10/08 again, I got the MMU error again - go figure). I've also probed all that can be probed, reset-all and I even flashed the BootProm to the latest version and still, no joy! The strange thing is, these versions used to install on it and I used to use a faster CDROM drive in it before and it used to work. Here's the really wierd part. ANY version of OpenBSD will install/run on it without a hitch! I'm using the machine with OpenBSD 4.5 and 2 Intel PCI NICs using the machine for packet filter/port forwarding and it works great. If I install an older version of Solaris (from the slow CDROM that came with the machine) Solaris doesn't recognize my 2 Intel NICs even though they're supported by the version (iprb0 and iprb1). They won't plumb. They show up in prtconf and I added them to /etc/driver_aliases, devlinks and all the rest - still, they don't show up! Can anyone shed some light on as to what's going on here? Regards, Steve Laurie // -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/install-discuss/attachments/20090602/fc003aab/attachment.html>
