[Sunhelp] 64-bit OS

Bill Bradford mrbill at mrbill.net
Thu Feb 3 19:38:40 CST 2000


On Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 10:38:23AM -0800, Dale Ghent wrote:
> By default, you should boot into a 64bit kernel with the new PROM (even
> with boot-file set to it's default of null)
> /dale

not on UltraSPARC 1 machines.. you have to explicitly tell the machine
to boot the 64-bit kernel, due to a chip bug that could allow a normal
user to hang the machine.

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