Subject: Re: 1.5_ALPHA2 boot floppies don't work
To: Todd Vierling <tv@wasabisystems.com>
From: None <mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu>
List: port-sparc
Date: 10/06/2000 16:45:27
On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Todd Vierling wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, David Brownlee wrote:
>
> : How much memory and in what configuration do you have?
> : My guess it it may be memory bank related.
> : I should be able to setup an ss2 to test this end.
>
> I have:
>
> bank0: 4MB (00000000-003fffff)
> bank1: 16MB (01000000-01ffffff)
> bank2: 16MB (02000000-02ffffff)
> bank3: 4MB (03000000-033fffff)
>
> An interesting datapoint is that this works fine with the 1.4.3 boot floppy
> and Solaris 2.6 CD. I'll try swapping bank0 and bank2 and see what happens.
I just jumped into this thread.... I believe there were sparc boot
floppy changes between 1.4.2 and 1.4.3 because of this sort of issue.
-Dan