SUMMARY: Ultra 60 won't boot

From: Shouben Zhou (zshouben@icase.edu)
Date: Tue Sep 28 1999 - 08:11:57 CDT


I have got several replies and all state that I have to reinstall the system
from the scratch since Ultra-2 using SBUS/SCSI while Ultra-60 using
PCI/SCSI.

Thanks to:
From: "David Evans" <DJEVANS@au.oracle.com>
From: Daniel Lee <daniel_lee@asia.com>
>From casper@holland.sun.com
From: Jim Matthews <jmatthew@pcs.cnu.edu>

*--------------------------------------------------------------*
* Institute for Computer Applications in Science & Engineering *
* Shouben Zhou | *
* ICASE, Mail Stop 132C | *
* 3 West Reid St. Bldg. 1152 | Phone: (757) 864-6558 *
* NASA Langley Research Center | Fax: (757) 864-6134 *
* Hampton, VA 23681-2199 | Email: szhou@icase.edu *
*--------------------------------------------------------------*

Original query:
>
> I have copied Solaris 2.6 system from one Ultra-2 computer to the Ultra-60
> computer. I have carefully checked and installed bootblk on the Ultra-60,
> but when I try to boot, it always ask me:
> Enter Filename: [/kernel/unix]:
> As soon as I type: /kernel/genunix, it says
>
> Elf read error
> boot failed.
>
> Does anybody know why this happen? Is there anything to do with 32 bit
> kernel or 64 bit kernel ?



This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.2 : Fri Sep 28 2001 - 23:13:26 CDT