My mistake was to use Sun's latest (as of last Wednesday) Recommended
Patch set for Solaris 2.6, rather than the set of patches which came
with the 5/98 release of 2.6. The recommended set doesn't include
105654-03 which corrects the following bugs:
4095546 simba entry incorrect in driver_aliases file
4086747 IDE driver support needed for new hardware
4091036 need simba driver for Ultra-5/Ultra-10 platform
and without those it just won't boot. Thank you, Sun, it took quite a
few installs before I homed in on that one...
A genuine thanks to Ramindur Singh <tsi-he@tibco.com> for his suggestion.
Not the right answer but at least one other person cares ;->
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My original message appended here:
I farm several Ultra 5s, none of which have given me any problems.
Today I revisited the first we received which up to now has been
happily running Solaris 2.5.1. I installed Solaris 2.6 (5/98 vintage)
and now it won't boot. The reason it won't boot, is that it can't
load the PCI drivers. /devices/pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3 is indeed empty
and booting the system up over the net and typing a drvconfig -R /a
just gives me an error attempting to make each node (dad@0,0:a,
dad@0,0:a,raw, etc.) but doesn't tell me why... This machine is,
naturally, not maintained. I see some bugs reported on drvconfig
failing on Online Sunsolve but the workaround is simply to run it by
hand. I tried!
I know precious little about PCI buses. The machine's owner had
installed a spare IDE CD drive which he had lying around but failed to
make it work. I made him take it out and redid the install. Same
result. It's at OpenBoot level 3.11 and it's 270 MHz (if this makes
any difference).
Any ideas, anyone?
-- Daf Tregear Department of Computer Science Systems Manager University of Manchester E-mail: daf@cs.man.ac.uk Oxford Road Tel: +44 (0)161 275 6227 Manchester Fax: +44 (0)161 275 6236 United Kingdom M13 9PL
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