[SunHELP] SS20 Solaris 7 boot issue

Peter Stokes peter at ashlyn.co.uk
Mon Jan 23 17:19:02 CST 2017


Hi

Very weird, maybe to do with SX graphics, but never seen that error. Try copy
of Sol 2.6 or 8 which should work fine. Did wonder if the boot rom version was
a little low, but would not normally get to Ok prompt if not normally.

Peter

> On 23 Jan 2017, at 20:35, Mark Benson <md.benson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> More problems...
>
> The SPARCstation 20, which runs OPENSTEP 4.2 just fine and dandy, won't boot
off my Solaris 7 CDs (either of them). IDPROM seems to be okay, no checksum
errors or contents invalid warnings.
>
> Screenshot below:
>
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/zqq48ucu1c3uwv5/2017-01-22%2016.54.12.jpg?dl=0
>
> I don't recall running Sol 7 on this thing, so I have no previous comparison
for it.
>
> Thanks,
> --
>
> Mark Benson
> twitter.com/MDBenson
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