[rescue] ultra 1 with weird errors

[Frank Van Damme]

On Monday 21 July 2003 15:04, William Enestvedt wrote:
>    I used to see that error message on Ultra 10s when trying to boot a
> particular version of Solaris 2.6; instead, I needed to boot from an
> "Operating Environment CD". But it doesn't look like an Ultra 1 problem:
> http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doc=fsrdb/20576.
>    I see another doc that mentions a corrupt bootblock, too -- have you
> investigated that? All the Sun reports mention a kernel that's trying to
> access memory in the wrong place, often as the result of a bad crash, or an
> OS installed onto a drive in one system that's simply moved to another
> system that is a different model.
>    Is your dutchman honest & forthright enough to tell you what really
> happened to this computer? :7)

I don't know him personally. It seems like the machine has been an oversized
paperweight for a long time though, judging from a usenet post of him:
http://groups.google.nl/groups?hl=nl&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&threadm=4a1845e4.0
112241355.11cadc87%40posting.google.com&rnum=24&prev=/groups%3Fq%3Dauthor:spr
engers%26start%3D20%26hl%3Dnl%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26selm%3D4a18
45e4.0112241355.11cadc87%2540posting.google.com%26rnum%3D24
. It's possible he booted from the wrong cdrom. I mailed him and asked if he
could try booting from a freshly-dd'd linux floppy :) . Such a floppy doesn't
try to access nonexistant disks.


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