I often respond to myself ... oh well .. here goes :
the odd messages were this :
Aug 2 00:56:00 saturn genunix: [ID 540533 kern.notice] ^MSunOS Release 5.11
Version snv_69 64-bit
Aug 2 00:56:00 saturn genunix: [ID 943907 kern.notice] Copyright 1983-2007
Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights
decent enough machine but while booting I wa presented with errors about a
bus running out of resources. I'll try to capture that off the console.
I figure that I may as well flash up the BIOS and SP and maybe that is the
issue at play here.
The SP says I have this :
localhost $ inventory get
