Well,,
it turned out top be a combination of things, mostly due to a bad simm
which caused memory errors, and apparently corrupted the install process.
In the end, I found out how to test the simms, and find the bad one, and
also what order to install them in a sparc 10. The box is now running
happily, thanks to all of you who responded.
My heavily editted summary follows:
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>From cshang@mailhost.la.AirTouch.COM Wed Sep 18 18:15:23 1996
I was told by my local Sun Sales Engineer about a month ago that the
new Sun 4Gb drive will NOT work on systems running SUNOS 4.1.x!
If your 4Gb drive falls into this catagory, it would be the disk
that is causing the OS install to fail not the SPARC 10.
Cynthia Shang
AirTouch Cellular
System Administrator
cshang@la.airtouch.com
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>From huikomix@dt.com.hk Wed Sep 18 19:59:02 1996
As I know, SunOS4.1.3_U1 cannot be installed to SunSparc10.
Best Regards,
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>From whafiz@london.micrognosis.com Thu Sep 19 06:51:15 1996
Please check that the filesystem :
/ is mounted on 'a' partition
/usr is mounted on 'g' partition
swap is mounted on 'b' partition
Also swap partition needs to left 'raw' i.e. not newfs'ed
I hope this helps
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>From primo@wsnet.com Thu Sep 19 08:58:09 1996
There is a switch in the eeprom called: diag-switch
at the ok prompt
setenv diag-switch=true
then boot, this may tell you which simm is the problem.
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>From bismark@alta.jpl.nasa.gov Thu Sep 19 10:35:23 1996
1 sim in slot 1 should work.
Aee the SIMs all the same and obtained from good source?
Do you have a 10SX? If so, you need a VSIM in slot J202.
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>From bob.netherton@neptune.Central.Sun.COM Thu Sep 19 14:04:02 1996
That's actually the last SIMM slot. The first is the one closest to the
SBus slots. This is a common mistake.
|> When I do a boot cdrom, it starts loading vmunix,
|> then dies with a "memory address not aligned" error.
This is what you get when the initial loader can't find good low
memory. Try moving the SIMM to the slot next to the SBus. That is the
only SIMM slot that must be populated. The other slots can go in
arbitrarily, but the first SIMM slot must be populated.
If you still have problems, it may be in the memory controller.
I still bet on the SIMM either being defective or being seated
improperly.
Hope this helps,
Bob
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>From westfall@netset.com Thu Sep 19 21:13:36 1996
Put the swap on partition b with a size 1.5 or 2 times the size of real
mem. All partitions should bo less than two gig. Make sure that none of
the partitions over lap :).
Larry Westfall.
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>From Ian_G_Crozier@cngp.cng.com Fri Sep 20 10:19:41 1996
In case you haven't found out yet. You have to have a memory chip in
the slot closest to the back of the workstation.
The order to put them in is 1 8 3 6 4 5 2 7, but from the back to the
front of the workstation.
Hope this helps.
If you still have problems, let me know.
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