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Eric | 1 Dec 10:34
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Re: Re: Indroduction

I just booted it up to try this out 
Solaris 10 8/07 s10x_u4wos_12b X86

and it gives Error 28 
Selected item cannot fit into memory 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Juergen Keil" <jk <at> tools.de>
To: <solarisx86 <at> yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2007 10:01 AM
Subject: [solarisx86] Re: Indroduction

--- In solarisx86 <at> yahoogroups.com, "Eric" <eric@...> wrote:
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> The first install worked OK but after 10 minutes the mouse froze up,
then it rebooted by itself,

Could have been a kernel panic.  Check if it had saved a kernel
crash dump in /var/crash/`hostname`.

The /var/adm/messages file could also contain information why
it rebooted.

The hardware is OK?  Maybe you should run memtest86 for a few
hours, to make sure that the system's memory is ok.

> after that it would not boot up to graphical bit, only to the
command prompt '#'  it would not reload it recycled in a endless loop
asking the start up questions.
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Phillip Bruce | 1 Dec 19:51
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Re: Re: Indroduction

Eric wrote:
> I just booted it up to try this out 
> Solaris 10 8/07 s10x_u4wos_12b X86
>
> and it gives Error 28 
> Selected item cannot fit into memory 
>  
>   
Eric,

How much memory do you have in the system?

Phillip

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Eric | 1 Dec 22:42
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Re: Re: Indroduction

1 Gig

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phillip Bruce" <pbbruce <at> mindspring.com>
To: <solarisx86 <at> yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2007 7:51 AM
Subject: Re: [solarisx86] Re: Indroduction

Eric wrote:
> I just booted it up to try this out 
> Solaris 10 8/07 s10x_u4wos_12b X86
>
> and it gives Error 28 
> Selected item cannot fit into memory 
>  
>   
Eric,

How much memory do you have in the system?

Phillip

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hal_hl | 2 Dec 04:43

Re: Where'd 800MB of RAM go?

--- In solarisx86 <at> yahoogroups.com, "Juergen Keil" <jk@...> wrote:

> I'd check the BIOS setup, there should be a setup option
> like "memory hole remapping" which must be enabled;  this will
> remap the top ~ 0.5 GB of physical memory to a physical base
> address >= 4GB.

It looks like that's part of it, but not the whole story.  Someone
pointed out this link to me.  Looks like there's several hurdles that
must be jumped to actually get 4 gig of memory, instead of just around
3.5GB.  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929605

Sounds like most systems will only ever get 3.5 gig, even with 4 gig
of RAM.  That seems to carry forward up to 8 gig as well, where you'll
only get 7.5gig.

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Ian Collins | 2 Dec 05:15
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Re: Re: Where'd 800MB of RAM go?

hal_hl wrote:
> --- In solarisx86 <at> yahoogroups.com, "Juergen Keil" <jk@...> wrote:
>  
>   
>> I'd check the BIOS setup, there should be a setup option
>> like "memory hole remapping" which must be enabled;  this will
>> remap the top ~ 0.5 GB of physical memory to a physical base
>> address >= 4GB.
>>     
>
> It looks like that's part of it, but not the whole story.  Someone
> pointed out this link to me.  Looks like there's several hurdles that
> must be jumped to actually get 4 gig of memory, instead of just around
> 3.5GB.  
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929605
>
> Sounds like most systems will only ever get 3.5 gig, even with 4 gig
> of RAM.  That seems to carry forward up to 8 gig as well, where you'll
> only get 7.5gig.
>
>   
No (at least not with Solaris), it's just a restriction with 32 bit systems:

> prtconf
System Configuration:  Sun Microsystems  i86pc
Memory size: 8192 Megabytes

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hal_hl | 2 Dec 23:19

Re: Where'd 800MB of RAM go?

--- In solarisx86 <at> yahoogroups.com, Ian Collins <ian@...> wrote:
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> No (at least not with Solaris), it's just a restriction with 32 bit
systems:
> 
> > prtconf
> System Configuration:  Sun Microsystems  i86pc
> Memory size: 8192 Megabytes

Ok, but you're cheating :)  That Sun is probably designed to hold
what, 32GB of RAM?  If you loaded it up, you'd probably find yourself
with 31.5 GB of RAM?

I was considering mainly lower end Intel desktop chipsets which can
only address 8GB of RAM.  Subtract about 512MB for PCI memory mapping
and you're down to 7.5....

With the silly price of memory over the last 4 weeks, you can easily
load up a motherboard with 8GB for under $300.  You could even hit
$130 if you surf the bargain websites and do rebates.

I wish FB ECC DDR2 memory would drop more, I might consider a dual
chip quad core Xeon or Barcelona....

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ian | 2 Dec 23:35
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Re: Where'd 800MB of RAM go?

hal_hl writes: 

> --- In solarisx86 <at> yahoogroups.com, Ian Collins <ian@...> wrote:
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>> No (at least not with Solaris), it's just a restriction with 32 bit
> systems:
>> 
>> > prtconf
>> System Configuration:  Sun Microsystems  i86pc
>> Memory size: 8192 Megabytes
> 
> Ok, but you're cheating :)  That Sun is probably designed to hold
> what, 32GB of RAM?  If you loaded it up, you'd probably find yourself
> with 31.5 GB of RAM? 
> 
Nope, it's an AMP QuadFX system, maxed out at 8GB of ECC RAM. 

Ian

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Phillip Bruce | 2 Dec 23:48
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Re: Re: Indroduction

Eric wrote:
> 1 Gig
>
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Phillip Bruce" <pbbruce <at> mindspring.com>
> To: <solarisx86 <at> yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2007 7:51 AM
> Subject: Re: [solarisx86] Re: Indroduction
>
>
> Eric wrote:
>   
>> I just booted it up to try this out 
>> Solaris 10 8/07 s10x_u4wos_12b X86
>>
>> and it gives Error 28 
>> Selected item cannot fit into memory 
>>  
>>   
>>     
> Eric,
>
> How much memory do you have in the system?
>
> Phillip
>   
Eric,
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Tomasz Kłoczko | 3 Dec 04:41
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Re: Jumpstart miniroot update for a Dell Inspiron 1720 laptop

On Sun, 25 Nov 2007, John D Groenveld wrote:
[..]
> Assume you foobar'd you boot image and start fresh:
> <URL:http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/features/articles/device_driver_install.jsp>

I'm not shure is my problem is in the same class but I'm trying install 
Solaris 10u4 on Dell 29xx. I'm trying install first Solaris system 
remotelly in group of Linux hosts so I'm using jumpstart server deployed 
on Linux (this is still another possible source of problems).

Booting grub using PXE passes correctly. Also miniroot is loaded and runed 
correctly but all looks like stops on mounting media by lack of network 
driver with with message:

     1.     Solaris Interactive (default)
     2.     Custom JumpStart
     3.     Solaris Interactive Text (Desktop session)
     4.     Solaris Interactive Text (Console session)
     5.     Apply driver updates
     6.     Single user shell

Enter the number of your choice.
Selected: 1

Solaris Interactive

No driver (or driver binding) was found for the interface used to boot.
A driver (or driver binding) may be available in an update or patch from
Sun, or from the interface vendor.
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Russell Aspinwall | 3 Dec 09:37
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Re: Re: Solaris 10 8/07 not recognising floppy drive

Hi,

It is an old ps/2 floppy. No ACPI error was reported, dmesg from server 
included

Nov 27 13:34:59 zenith genunix: [ID 672855 kern.notice] syncing file 
systems...
Nov 27 13:34:59 zenith genunix: [ID 904073 kern.notice]  done
Nov 27 13:36:16 zenith genunix: [ID 540533 kern.notice] ^MSunOS Release 
5.10 Version Generic_120012-14 64-bit
Nov 27 13:36:16 zenith genunix: [ID 943907 kern.notice] Copyright 
1983-2007 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All rights reserved.
Nov 27 13:36:16 zenith Use is subject to license terms.
Nov 27 13:36:16 zenith unix: [ID 126719 kern.info] features: 
11f6fdf<cpuid,cmp,cx16,sse3,nx,asysc,sse2,sse,pat,cx8,pae,mca,mmx,cmov,pge,mtrr,msr,tsc,lgpg>
Nov 27 13:36:16 zenith unix: [ID 168242 kern.info] mem = 4193852K 
(0xfff8f000)
Nov 27 13:36:16 zenith rootnex: [ID 466748 kern.info] root nexus = i86pc
Nov 27 13:36:16 zenith rootnex: [ID 349649 kern.info] pseudo0 at root
Nov 27 13:36:16 zenith genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] pseudo0 is /pseudo
Nov 27 13:36:16 zenith rootnex: [ID 349649 kern.info] scsi_vhci0 at root
Nov 27 13:36:16 zenith genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] scsi_vhci0 is 
/scsi_vhci
Nov 27 13:36:16 zenith rootnex: [ID 349649 kern.info] isa0 at root
Nov 27 13:36:16 zenith pcplusmp: [ID 736762 kern.info] pcplusmp: vector 
0x9 ioapic 0x2 intin 0x9 is bound to cpu 1
Nov 27 13:36:16 zenith rootnex: [ID 349649 kern.info] npe0 at root: 
space 0 offset 0
Nov 27 13:36:16 zenith genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] npe0 is /pci <at> 0,0
Nov 27 13:36:16 zenith pcplusmp: [ID 637496 kern.info] pcplusmp: pci-ide
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