[rescue] SS1000E Solaris support?

[Ethan Hawke]

Hey Thomas,

I have uploaded the ROM here: https://ember.systems/archive/

My SS1000E wasn't in a position that I could easily dismantle it to read 
the ROMs, so I read them within OBP, it's currently a single 512K image, 
but you should be able to split it up into 4 128K ROMs and burn them, 
the service manual suggests that the inner (closer to the middle of the 
system board) is the first ROM, however the architecture manual suggests 
the opposite, so if it doesn't work one way, you may have to swap them 
around.

Hopefully it all works as expected.

Let us know how it goes!

Cheers,
Ethan

On 5/6/23 04:40, Thomas Pelki via rescue wrote:
> Hi Ethan,
>
> Nobody has yet, and would be much appreciated.
>
> -Thomas
>
>
> On Sun, Jun 4, 2023 at 7:03 AM Ethan Hawke via rescue 
> <rescue at sunhelp.org> wrote:
>
>     Hey Thomas,
>
>     Still need the 2.31 ROMS? If someone hasn't sent them to you I can
>     read mine, but I probably won't have time until next weekend.
>
>     Cheers,
>     Ethan
>
>     On 04/06/2023 8:04 am, Thomas Pelki via rescue wrote:
>>     Hi All,
>>
>>     While were on the subject of the SS1000/1000e, could somebody
>>     dump the 2.31 eproms please, and send them to me?
>>
>>     I believe 2.31 is the latest version
>>     -Thomas
>>
>>
>>     On Sat, Jun 3, 2023 at 2:17 AM Ethan Hawke via rescue
>>     <rescue at sunhelp.org> wrote:
>>
>>         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
>>         >
>>
>>         _______________________________________________
>>         rescue list -
>>         http://sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/rescue_sunhelp.org
>>
>>
>>     _______________________________________________
>>     rescue list -http://sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/rescue_sunhelp.org
>     _______________________________________________
>     rescue list - http://sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/rescue_sunhelp.org
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> rescue list -http://sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/rescue_sunhelp.org
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://sunhelp.org/pipermail/rescue_sunhelp.org/attachments/20230611/433abc5a/attachment.html>