> On Mon, 19 Jun 2006, Dennis Clarke wrote: > >> I have tried repeatedly on this old old 32-bit HP Kayak XU box to get a >> clean build. Something I can do with the same processes in the same >> manner >> on a dual proc Opteron in a flash. Easy as pie. > ... >> So I guess I have to ask if anyone else out there has had any issues with >> any of these : >> >> snv_20060605 >> snv_20060612 >> snv_41 >> snv_42 >> >> on old 32-bit Intel Pentium hardware ? > > I can't even get any of those build in SXCR to even boot on my Kayak. I > haven't even bother to figure out why, I figure there are better things to > do than to figure it out. There is something weird with the hardware, > VMWare (any kind) won't work on it either. >
OKay ... good to hear that I am not nuts here. Or we are both slightly affected in the same way with the same sort of hardware. What sort of unit do you have there ? I have an HP Kayak XU Model D5704T with a few modifications. Firstly I had three of these units at one point and I bought them all off eBay years ago. One died a while ago of unknown causes. I then stripped the second unit of everything of value and built one machine with dual 400MHz procs. I then installed a bit of RAM to get to 512MB. That config ran Solaris 9 from the release date of Solaris 9 GA until recently. So, whats that? Four years or so I guess. I even had Lotus Domino 5.0.10 for Solaris x86 on there for a year. Never a hiccup. I recently went a little bonkers and decided to beef the machine up to the max just to see what would happen. This is why people like me should not be allowed to drive sports cars as I will hold the gas pedal to the floor to see where the redline really is. I grabbed every spare PCI part that I could reach ( consider my basement to be Bob's computer junkyard and coffee emporium ) and stuffed every SCSI controller into every PCI slot. The end result? Five working SCSI controllers plus the internal IDE and then I installed snv_38 which runs just great provided I stay the heck away from JDS. Don't get me wrong, JDS runs fine and looks cool and all that but it drags the poor machine into the ground performance wise. Even with dual procs. Makes me wonder if everything in there is multi-threaded. I will post the results from prtconf just for the sake of comparison. I can not say anything about VMWare. I have VMWare Workstation for Linux and there is no VMWare for Solaris yet ( or ever ) and if I try to boot either Red Hat 9 or Red Hat Enterprise AS ( or ES ) the boot process barfs a bit and can not deal with five SCSI controllers. I don't know why and I don't care really as snv_38 runs fine. What do you have for hardware there ? My hope is that there is something quirky going on here with the HP Kayak and not the code or the build process. -- Dennis Clarke _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
