Subject: Re: Sparc-10 memory problems?
To: Tim Walls <tim.walls@pa.press.net>
From: David Maxwell <david@fundy.ca>
List: port-sparc
Date: 01/24/2000 14:16:55
On Mon, Jan 24, 2000 at 05:56:24PM +0000, Tim Walls wrote:
> The memory on this machine seems to be somewhat problematic... Apparently,
> it's all in the right slots, but Solaris doesn't like it (memory alignment
> errors.) NetBSD evidently doesn't, but apparently a really ancient version
> of RedHat Linux (spit) will boot OK on it.
Sorry to question you, but the order of simms is very odd on these machines.
I've had the identical error before, when I was given machines with simms
in the wrong slots.
This was what I followed to resolve it:
http://docs.sun.com:80/ab2/coll.208.1/SMSS10/@Ab2PageView/3962?DwebQuery=sparc+OR+10&Ab2Lang=C&Ab2Enc=iso-8859-1
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