SUMMARY: Netra 1125 and 64-bit problem

Hi again,

After getting such fast responses, I now see this was probably something I
should have known. 

The eeprom setting "boot-file" was set to "kernel/unix" which forces the
system to boot in 32-bit mode. The guy who owns these machines swears he
never changed this. Regardless, once I got rid of it, the system came up in
64-bit mode just fine.

Thanks to:

Phillips, John [john.phillips@calanais.com]
Gilliam, Kirk R. [KGilliam@bcbsm.com]
Homan, Charles (NE) [Charles.Homan@GDC4S.Com]
Casper Dik [Casper.Dik@Sun.COM]

-Gary


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gary Richardson [mailto:grichardson@watercove.com] 
> Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 10:43 AM
> To: 'sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org'
> Subject: Netra 1125 and 64-bit problem
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> A user here has two Netra 1125's in his lab. The two machines 
> are almost
> identical:
> 
> 2x440mhz Ultra-Sparc-II processors, Boot v3.29, one with 
> 512MB RAM, the
> other with 1024MB RAM
> 
> We loaded Solaris 8 01/01 onto the first machine, and when it 
> boots up it
> says the kernel is running in 64-bit. Cool. We load the 
> second machine with
> the same OS, however this one says it in 32-bit mode. Huh? 
> 
> I grabbed my copy of Solaris 8 10/01 and we loaded that onto 
> the problem
> machine. Still 32-bit mode. Not sure what to do next. 
> 
> Questions: Is this a hardware problem? If so, what 
> specifically? Processors?
> Does the EEPROM have anything to do with telling the machine 
> whether to use
> 32 or 64 bit? 
> 
> Thanks for any help!
> 
> -Gary
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