[Sunhelp] Solaris 8/SPARC20 install problem

[Mark Mohrmann]

I had the SIMM's in the wrong sockets.
Turning on diag-switch showed me the POST error msg.
I swapped them around and I now get the memory probes also.
Thanks for the reply anyway.

Mark


At 11:08 AM 11/6/00 -0800, you wrote:
>What version of OpenBoot are you running?
>
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>Subject: [Sunhelp] Solaris 8/SPARC20 install problem
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>I'm a Solaris/SPARC newbie looking for some help with the installation.
>
>I've got 2 SPARC20's that will not accept an install from either the
>Solaris 8 "Installation" disk or the "Software" disk.
>
>At the ok prompt after entering "boot cdrom" the cdrom begins reading
>the disk. After about 60 seconds this error message appears:
>
>(Can't deduct panicbuf from physical memory list) Program Terminated
>
>The external CDROM is an Artecom. It was used to succesfully load Debian
>Linux 2.2 on the 20. The other 20 has an internal CDROM and the same problem
>occurs with it.
>
>I have succesfully loaded Solaris 8 onto a SPARC10 using the Artecon CDROM
>unit.
>
>Any help or info pointing me in the right direction would be appreciated.
>Thanks.
>
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