Steve: About your iprb0 and iprb1, what was the device id ??? If you are trying to install older Solaris that does not have the support for the iprb devices support, they will not be recognized. Typically it will be good to try SXCE and see whether they are recognized. Sometimes the drivers will be backported to S10 updates. Since Solaris 10 5/09 is just available, you can try to install and see whether it recognize the iprb. If it does not work, then you can file a bug against network driver iprb and request to get support for th driver.
As for the Ultra 5 problem, are you trying to install a CD or DVD ??? With Solaris 10 5/09, we have newboot sparc support and the CD/DVD laidout had changed. I am going to see whether this works on my ultra5 with the CD1 media. Steve wrote: > 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 > // > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > install-discuss mailing list > install-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/install-discuss
