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- From: pen@lysator.liu.se (Peter Eriksson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
- Subject: Re: Sun-2 CPUs and os 4.0.3
- Message-ID: <1606@lysator.liu.se>
- Date: 8 Sep 92 17:38:32 GMT
- References: <1992Sep7.224252.11708@nobeltech.se> <1992Sep8.143837.4456@telebit.com>
- Sender: news@isy.liu.se (Lord of the News)
- Organization: Lysator Academic Computer Society, Linkoping University, Sweden
- Lines: 29
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- bjork@telebit.com (Steven Bjork) writes:
-
- >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.
-
- 3MB of RAM works fine. We have two Sun 2/120's running SunOS 4.0.3
- with just that. They boot diskless from our Sun 4/380. We used to
- boot a Sun 2/50 from the same machine also.
-
- /Peter
-
- --
- Peter Eriksson pen@lysator.liu.se
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- University of Linkoping, Sweden I'm bored. Flame me.
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