Installation Issues - Solaris 10

Here's the situation.

I've got a sparc machine that I'm trying to install Solaris 10 on. I've verified the equipment in the approved hardware guide, so I'm not worried about that.

I get through the installation process and am asked to reboot without a single problem. The problem occures after the inital reboot. It just starts an endless boot cycle. It'll initialize the memory, hang, flash a bunch of text on the screen (looks a lot like memory addresses, honestly), and then begin the boot sequence again.

Now, this machine was running Solaris 8 on it without problems. I ran the install program because the machine had ancient data on it and I wanted to wipe the system.

I'm at a loss as to why this endless cycle is happening. Ideas are much appreciated.

Thanks!

[811 byte] By [ellie_a] at [2007-11-27 8:35:33]
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It would help if you actually told us what the hardware might be.

For example, all Sun Ultra-2 modules run with Solaris 8.

Some Sun Ultra-2 cpu modules will run with Solaris 10,

and some Sun Ultra-2 cpu modules will not run with Solaris 10, they're too old.

So ... technically the Ultra-2 is a qualified platform for Solaris 10,

but only if you have compatible sub-components.

There are some Fujitsu systems that although they use a SPARC cpu architecture,

they must use Fujitsu-tweaked operating systems, not generic Solaris,

because those cpu modules are Fujitsu SPARC modules.

Your original description of "the situation" is far from informative or complete.

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