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brianakee
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PostPosted: Sat Jun 05, 2004 3:41 am    Post subject: How to upgrade OpenBoot Reply with quote

I am getting this error on boot (see below). I get other errors (varies everytime I try) when booting to 2.4.26, which is what I would prefer to have.

In any case, I have another system that boots the exact same kernel without any problems. As far as I can tell the only differences between the two systems is the HDD and the OpenBoot version. I figured it would be worth a try to upgrade the OBP.

This brings me to my question.
How can I upgrade the OBP on and Ultra5?
Where can I get the images?

or

has anyone seen this error on an Ultra5 before?

Thanks,

TM

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Sun Ultra 5/10 UPA/PCI (UltraSPARC-IIi 360MHz), No Keyboard
OpenBoot 3.19, 128 MB (60 ns) memory installed, Serial #13586639.
Ethernet address 8:0:20:cf:50:cf, Host ID: 80cf50cf.

Boot device: disk File and args:
SILO Version 1.4.5
boot:
Allocated 8 Megs of memory at 0x40000000 for kernel
Loaded kernel version 2.6.5

Remapping the kernel... Fast Instruction Access MMU Miss
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PostPosted: Sat Jun 05, 2004 5:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Here is what you are looking for
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brianakee
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PostPosted: Sat Jun 05, 2004 10:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks for the info.

I was able to find this. I probably should have looked a little harder before posting.

In any case, I was really looking for a "linux" way to do it. Unfortunately, all the information I found says to use RARP/TFTP, or build solaris and upgrade it as defined by the link you most graciously provided.

Since I am not intersted in setting up RARP/TFTP, and due to the fact that I have a copy of Solaris 2.6 for Sparc I will be rebuilding from scratch.

Thank You for the response.

TM
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brianakee
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 06, 2004 3:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well,

I was able to get a minimal install of Solaris 2.6 installed fairly quickly. Upgrading the OBP is very easy from Solaris install. (see the reference link above)

In any case, I think this may have solved my kernel related problems. Prior to the upgrade I have many problems booting different kernel versions. Some would work others would not. Some would work on some of the systems (all Ultra5), but not on other systems. It was getting very irritating.

I still have some testing to do, but so far I have two of the problem systems working as expected. They are both now booting 2.6.x and 2.4.x version kernels. Currently all of the exact kernels that were failing on both of these systems before the OpenBoot upgrade.

The version of OpenBoot that were installed prior to the upgrade were 3.19 and 3.25. I upgraded them both to v 3.31.

Maybe this will help othere having kernel related boot problems.

I will post any updates here as necessary.

TM
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 06, 2005 10:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Anyone managed to get OBP upgrade from Linux? Thanks.
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