SUMMARY: Memory Address not aligned

From: Leo Crombach (lcrombach@tropel.com)
Date: Fri Oct 03 1997 - 14:06:01 CDT


Original Post:

Sun Managers:

Situation: A SS4, Solaris 2.5 will not boot due to a memory alignment
error. If I run "test /memory" at the OBP I get the message "Memory address
not aligned."

Question: How do I fix this?

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Solution:

Many, many people quickly responded and most suggested reseating the SIMMs
or removing them one at a time to determine which one could be causing the
problem. I tried reseating the only SIMM in the machine and that did not
work. So I stole a SIMM from another SPARC 4 and swapped the two. Now the
machine boots no problem.

Let me say duh to myself because if I had thought a little more before
bothering the list I probably could have come up with the above solution.
Oh well, it's been a busy day.

Thanks to all the following people for swiftly replying:

Samir Arora
Erik Janssen
Joel Lee
D. Stew McLeod
John Sutton
Kris Briscoe
Jim Harmon
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Leo Crombach Phone: (716) 388-3566
System Administrator Email: lcrombach@tropel.com
Tropel Corporation URL: http://www.tropel.com
60 O'Connor Road
Fairport, New York 14450

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