[rescue] SS1000E Solaris support?

[Ethan Hawke]

Hey Dave,

Unfortunately it won't work, in Solaris 9 the sun4d kernel was removed. 
The only sun4d remnants left is a stub bootblk that just simply prints 
the following when you try to boot it;

     SPARCserver 1000E, No Keyboard
     ROM Rev. 2.31, 2048 MB memory installed, Serial #7609142.
     Ethernet address 8:0:20:74:1b:36, Host ID: 80741b36.


     Rebooting with command: cdrom
     Boot device: 
/io-unit at f,e0200000/sbi/dma at 0,81000/esp at 0,80000/sd at 6,0:e  File and args:
     This hardware platform is not supported by this release of Solaris.
     Program terminated
     Type  help  for more information
     <#0> ok

  the sun4d architecture is very different from sun4m and can't simply 
be patched to support it.

At least we know for sure, sorry to disappoint.

Cheers,
Ethan

On 31/5/23 21:41, Dave McGuire via rescue wrote:
>
>   Can anyone here tell me with certainty what the latest release of 
> Solaris is that will run (not "is supported", but "will run") on a 
> SPARCserver-1000E (sun4d) machine?
>
>               Thanks,
>               -Dave
>