Re: 6.1 current instabilty on Sun Ultra 40's

On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 01:39:35PM +1000, Norberto Meijome wrote:
On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 18:02:28 -0400
stan <stanb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I can't get 6.1 to even compile a new kernel on 2 different Sun
Ultra 40's Anyone have nay reason that it should not work on these machines?

Stan,
as a general rule, telling the list what you did and the (exact) error /
problems you encountered will give better results...

Sorry I can't be of help in this particular issue.

That would be a little hard to summarize, as it's taken a couple
of months to come to the conclusion that FreeBSD is unusable
on these machines. Partly because I only have 2 of them, one of which
is in daily critical production running Linux.

I had assumed that I might have hardware problems on the machine
I'm trying to use for FreeBSD, despite having run _extensive_
hardware diagnostics. Yesterday, in desperation< I shut down the machine
running Linux, and put the boot disk from the other machine in it.
On that disk is a world, built from last weekends cvsup. I was able
to reproduce it's instability to build a generic kernel. It fails with
a signal (I believe) 11, Basically I was flagging others who may be considering
buying this hardware, with the intent of running FreeBSD on it to not
do so. Without having machines to give to developers, I don't really
expect this situation to get corrected in the foreseeable future.

Having said that, at this point I have a machine that I really can't use
for the application it was purchased for. I'd be willing to do any testing
the developers might be interested in doing on this machine.

--
Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity.
(Dennis Ritchie)
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