Installing Solaris 8 on a SunFire 280R
The SunFire 280R has 11 external disks. Disk 11 has Solaris 9 installed.
In attempting to install Solaris on another disk, the following message appears at the command "boot cdrom" command:
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krtld: load_exec: fail to expand cpu/$CPU
krtld: error during initial load/link phase
panic-boot: exit to 64 returned from client program.
Program terminated.
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Do you have any ideas on how to solve this?
Is Solaris 8 (1/01) unable to installed on a 64-bit machine?
Objective: I'm trying ot have both Solaris 8 and Solaris 9 on the same processor.
Thanks for your insights.
[658 byte] By [
Stone] at [2007-11-25 22:53:56]
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Hello,
I just wanted to point you to the Sun System Handbook page for the F280R, but to my surprise the note is lacking from the current <b>public/free</b> version !!!
This is a quote from the <b>Quick Facts</b> of a formerly public SSH
<table border="0" align="center" width="90%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td class="SmallText"><b>Quote:</b></td></tr><tr>& lt;td class="quote">
Solaris 8 1/01requires specific patch installations. See 816-1712 for details.
Solaris 8 10/01 is the minimum OS for 900MHz Cu modules.
</td></tr></table>
<a href="http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/816-1712-10?l=en &q=816-1712" target="_blank"><b>READ ME: Important Patch Installation Required Sun Blade 1000 Sun Enterprise 280R</b></a> is available from docs.sun.com.
The Blade 1000 and the Sun Fire 280R use the same systemboard, but a Enterprise 280R doesn't exist.
Either get Solaris 8 7/01 or Solaris 8 10/01 (for 900Mhz Cu) or a more current version of Solaris 8.
If you have a service contract, you can notify Sun (<a href="mailto:ssh-feedback@sun.com" target="_blank">ssh-feedback@sun.com</a>) about this omission. It's your time and money you have spent when you got stuck ...
Michael
maal at 2007-7-5 17:09:20 >
