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- Path: sparky!uunet!auspex-gw!guy
- From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
- Subject: Re: LX with 4.1.3
- Keywords: LX with 4.1.3
- Message-ID: <16270@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
- Date: 7 Jan 93 03:09:11 GMT
- References: <1993Jan6.214037.25908@news.nd.edu>
- Sender: news@auspex-gw.auspex.com
- Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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- >I've heard rumors that LX's would boot with 4.1.3 if
- >an appropriate boot rom was installed to allow this...
- >And that the only reason that they don't is because of
- >
- >Is this true??
-
- Well
-
- From: ppan@nobeltech.se (Per Andersson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
- Subject: Re: SPARCclassic and SunOS 4.1.x
- Message-ID: <1992Dec17.172019.6869@nobeltech.se>
- Date: 17 Dec 92 17:20:19 GMT
- References: <8457@btr.BTR.COM>
- Organization: NobelTech AB
-
- In article <8457@btr.BTR.COM> bfong@btr.btr.com (B Fong) writes:
- >
- >Can someone verify (positively) if the SPARCclassic will run SunOS 4.1.x?
- >
- >Does anyone know this for sure? That is, actually installed one?
-
- No it won't run 4.1.3. Not only because SUN says so, but it gives a
- 'data exception' when starting the generic 4m kernel after booting off
- the 4.1.3 CD. It runs the boot program OK though, both from CD and from
- network.
-
- which could, conceivably, be due to a boot PROM problem, but could
- *also* conceivably be due to some differences in board registers between
- the Classic/LX and other Sun-4ms, or due to missing workarounds for
- microSPARC or other chip bugs, or....
-
- >Does anyone have the code for a boot rom which would allow
- >booting with 4.1.3 which they would share??
-
- Not if they don't know FORTH, they don't.... :-)
-