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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
- Path: sparky!uunet!telebit!bjork
- From: bjork@telebit.com (Steven Bjork)
- Subject: Re: Sun-2 CPUs and os 4.0.3
- Message-ID: <1992Sep8.143837.4456@telebit.com>
- Sender: news@telebit.com
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- Organization: Telebit Corporation; Sunnyvale, CA, USA
- References: <1992Sep7.224252.11708@nobeltech.se>
- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 14:38:37 GMT
- Lines: 20
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- In article <1992Sep7.224252.11708@nobeltech.se> ppan@nobeltech.se (Per Andersson) writes:
- >
- >Hi.
- >
- >I was playing around with an old SUN-2, and tried to boot it diskless from a
- >3/280 running 4.1.1_U1. It boots ok until after doing the root on server:,
- >swap on server:,dump on server: part , then it crashes with some PROT VIOL
- >or if it was access violation. I know some versions of PROM doesn't run
- >version 4 of SunOS correctly. Does anybody know which PROMs I should have,
- >and if there are any other things that make this impossible ( not just
- >unsupported, which this configuration of course is) ?
-
- You need four megabytes of memory, plus on the Multibus sun 2's, you
- need to have all four of the jumpers installed on the non-prime CPU
- boards that are along the bottom left corner, by the 8289 bus arbiter
- chip. Check both these items, and your unit should then boot.
-
- I've never heard of boot prom problems, hmmm.
-
- --Steven
-