Re: Ultra 1 won't boot

From: Michael Laajanen (michael_laajanen@yahoo.com)
Date: 04/04/03 

From: Michael Laajanen <michael_laajanen@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2003 17:43:05 GMT

HI,

David List wrote:
> On Thursday 03 April 2003 20:44, Rich Teer (rich.teer@rite-group.com) wrote
> in <Pine.GSO.4.44.0304031040040.2995-100000@zaphod>:
>
>
>>When you finally get it working, it's worth downloading the latest
>>Ultra 1 OBP patch (make sure you don't get the "E" version of the
>>patch).
>
>
> Excuse me for budding in, here. I have an Ultra 1 Creator (A12-170E), which
> has never been OBP updated, so I would like to hear more about this: where
> do you get the update?
> All I can find is this page, which tells me that there were once CDs with
> the updates, but they are not issued anymore:
> http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/Devices/Boot_PROM/BootPROM_Flash_Sun4u.html
>
Search for "HARDWARE/PROM" and you will get all OPENBOOT updates.

Since you are the lucky 170E owner(i am not ) then you should get
104288-07 if I am not misstaking.

By the way, if you install Solaris I think the installer will update the
flash if needed?

Default it runs 32-bit on <200MHz U1, so you need to change that
manually and also move a jumper on the board before updating the flash,
en after updated put the jumper back to Read-only mode.

All this info is in a README in the patch.

I run my 143MHz in 64 bit and works fine, it feel better to be 64 bit :))

/michael

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