it seems to run with 12MB RAM. no more parity errors this time. but now the installer hates my SCSI drive (a ZuluSCSI).
filesystem creation failed for / 🤔
i bet it is this issue. basically the ZuluSCSI returns values for disk geometry that somehow confuses the Solaris partition tool. one solution is to use a real SCSI hard drive and then dd it over to the ZuluSCSI once the install is completed.
https://github.com/ZuluSCSI/ZuluSCSI-firmware/discussions/122#discussioncomment-4418076
zululog.txt has the smoking gun:
[996859ms] WARNING: Host used command 0x1A which is affected by drive geometry. Current settings are 63 sectors x 255 heads = 16065 but image size of 2097152 sectors is not divisible. This can cause error messages in diagnostics tools.
i think the solution here is to resize the disk image file so it is divisible by 63*255*512.
@tubetime Oh, yeah, that rings a bell, zero and three are swapped in Sun4 ...
While we may have left on a cliffhanger in our first ISP episode, this might be our most extensive video to date. We get up close with the SPARCclassic, and ...
Many years ago I wrote a little tool called "scsi-ping" which gives you a working disktab entry for a SCSI disk.
It's still out there somewhere.
@bsdphk @tubetime From your FreeBSD homepage:
scsi-ping Has taken a life of its own, I don't administrate any Solaris hosts these days, so I can't help you figure out what to do about your disktab. The most recent version I know about is here: ftp://ftp.cdf.toronto.edu/pub/jdd/scsiping
Edit: since that led nowhere, here's a working URL: https://www.cs.toronto.edu/pub/jdd/scsiping/
@tubetime owo...
i hope you saw @ncommander 's #Solaris livestreams...
@tubetime I like how "WARNING" is all caps and "panic" is kept on the down-low with no caps.
I guess 'panic' has another meaning than what is coming to mind.
@tubetime
It has been years since I last saw
le0 no carrier log messages.
Thanks for that!
@tubetime I had to do this for my lunchbox machines (an IPX and an LX)
But for my Sun Blade 100, I had to do a whole different thing to recover the IDPROM
of the three machines, only the IPX got a modern IDPROM replacement. The others have CR2032s with holders hacked in. :o( (though not the Duct Tape Special you had!)