...Or perhaps this thread would have better been titled
"Voodoo-hoodoo-what-you-don't-dare-do-people".
Anyways, I got an Ultra2 with a 200 MHz UltraSPARC I to boot and install
Solaris 10 6/06. To do this, I used a Solaris 10 modified boot server and chose
"Manual reboot".
The modification to the net boot image consisted of the `inetboot` copied from
Solaris 9 9/05 SPARC.
Then I installed a Solaris 10 (unmodified) Flash(TM) archive to install the
system. After the install had completed, I was given a root shell, in which I
promptly mounted /export/install on the install server via NFS, and copied
Solaris 9 9/05 /platform/sun4u/ufsboot as well as /platform/sun4u/boot.conf.
Furthermore, by uncommenting
ALLOW_64BIT_KERNEL_ON_UltraSPARC_1_CPU=true
in the /a/platform/sun4u/boot.conf file enabled me to reboot the system in
64-bit mode.
Applying the recommended patch cluster also succeded without a hitch, meaning
the system was able to reboot afterwards without a problem.
I also performed
removef /platform/sun4u/ufsboot SUNWcakr
removef -f SUNWcakr
...because I'm planning on creating my own (patch?) package with `ufsboot` and
boot.conf taken from Solaris 9 and I want everything to be spic-and-span clean
as far as OS integrity. I hold having to alter SUNWcakr for most unfortunate,
since it is one of the core OS packages and I don't know how `patchadd` might
behave when trying to patch SUNWcakr with a new `ufsboot` payload and another
non-Sun package owns the file.
The only "error" message, if it could be called that, shows up during boot:
call to undefined service "fstat"
Can't stat misc/forthdebug stat=1868778 sz=3
Am I in a position to fix it, and if so, how do I do that?
I know that there is an RFE out to integrate US I support back into
(Open)Solaris, but I don't remember the RFE # any more. Can anybody say how
that RFE is coming along?
I should add that being able to make an old UltraSPARC I saved me a whole bunch
of money on something that is very hard to get where I am, and very, very
rarely available for sale, namely 2 x 450MHz US II modules. So it is quite
important that I'm able to run Solaris 10 on an Ultra2 that I can't get rid of
because nobody even knows what a Sun system is around here.
And, as a parting note, something for a hardcore Sun/Solaris/Ultra2 enthusiast
to feast their eyes on:
Sun Ultra 2 UPA/SBus (UltraSPARC 200MHz), No Keyboard
OpenBoot 3.25, 256 MB memory installed, Serial ########.
Ethernet address 8:0:20:##:##:##, Host ID: ########.
Rebooting with command: boot
Boot device: /[EMAIL PROTECTED],0/SUNW,[EMAIL PROTECTED],8800000/[EMAIL
PROTECTED],0:a File and args:
SunOS Release 5.10 Version Generic_118833-24 64-bit
Copyright 1983-2006 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
Use is subject to license terms.
call to undefined service "fstat"
Can't stat misc/forthdebug stat=1868778 sz=3
Hostname: host
host console login: root
Password:
Oct 22 22:04:55 host login: ROOT LOGIN /dev/console
Last login: Sun Oct 22 21:24:05 on console
Sun Microsystems Inc. SunOS 5.10 Generic January 2005
# exec tcsh -l
TERM has been set to 'sun'
Sun Microsystems Inc. SunOS 5.10 Generic January 2005
10:04pm up 7 min(s), 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.15, 0.12
User tty login@ idle JCPU PCPU what
root console 10:04pm tcsh -l
[EMAIL PROTECTED]/]> prtdiag -v | less -seM
System Configuration: Sun Microsystems sun4u Sun Ultra 2 UPA/SBus (UltraSPARC
200MHz)
System clock frequency: 100 MHz
Memory size: 256 Megabytes
========================= CPUs =========================
Run Ecache CPU CPU
Brd CPU Module MHz MB Impl. Mask
0 0 0 200 1.0 US-I 4.0
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