> I was able to install SXCE b104 on a Sun Blade 1000. > It seems to work although it is kind of buggy. On > a Sun Blade 2000 however, the install failed > completely. The machine would reboot randomly > during the installation and if you were able to > complete the install by chance the workstation would > not reboot. I had to back to Sol 10 Oct/08. If > you ask me Sun's record on supporting its own sparc > hardware on opensolaris is dismal. I have a number > of sparc machines that would make nice workstations > if only a more modern OS (like opensolaris) were > available for them. > > Juan
I've had snv_98 running just fine on my Sun Blade 2000, complete with zfs boot (off of external drives via an LSI SAS controller, although the internal FC drives work too) and a zone. And a lot of stuff in it: XVR-1000, Creator 3D series 3, the SAS controller, and a USB 2.0 board. Only problem is that the only fast graphics for that system are the UPA boards (32-bit PCI not being fast enough, and the 64-bit slot really being needed for the SAS controller), and none of them have drivers for Xorg included (although the Creator 3D would be possible, and someone other than Sun has ported that and some other Xorg drivers for older SPARC frame buffers; but I've not had any luck in the little time I've spent trying to get them to work for me). So I have to use Xsun, which still has DPS support (old Solaris 8 pageview binary still works, for example) but lacks XRENDER support, so that the newer font antialiasing approach tends not to work (they look horrible at certain resolutions). If you have something else handy with a serial port, you might want to hook that up to port A and run the openboot diagnostics. I've had bad RAM on that sort of system that, when it crashed, looked like anything but that. The firmware diags may give a useful diagnosis when nothing else would. Except for the model number and (maybe) what types of CPUs are supported on older Sun Blade 1000's vs later ones or 2000's, there's little or no difference between the two. I'd have to check, but it wouldn't surprise me if the right model of system board would work in either one. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
