sunfire v440
Riccardo Veraldi
riccardo.veraldi at gmail.com
Mon May 20 17:53:22 UTC 2013
actually many ppl have problem with the boot CD after 8.2 seems not
workin anymore
the /boot/kernel directory is EMPTY...
On 5/20/13 7:29 PM, Jackson Donadel wrote:
>
> I think you need to set boot file during the boot process.
> During the boot I go to the LOM and go to the console then set
> boot=/boot/kernel. Something like this.
>
> Em 20/05/2013 14:23, "Riccardo Veraldi" <riccardo.veraldi at gmail.com
> <mailto:riccardo.veraldi at gmail.com>> escreveu:
>
> I am about to buy a 4 processor ultrsparc IIIi 1,59MHz, do you
> think FreeBSD 9.1 will have no problem to run ?
> I mean no problem with 4 CPU number ?
>
> FreeBSD sparc64 page is telling it is supported...
> Sun Fire V440 (support for the on-board NICs first appeared in
> 7.3-RELEASE and 8.0-RELEASE)
>
> my only problem now but it is with all sparc64 architectures is
> that 9.1 ISO won't boot...
> cannot find kernel.
>
>
> On 5/19/13 11:17 PM, Joerg Wunsch wrote:
>
> As Riccardo Veraldi wrote:
>
> Looking on FreeBSD site it tells it is supported since
> FreeBSD 8.0
> but I ask to someone who is using FreeBSD on his V440 to
> confirm me
> it's working.
>
> I recently got a SunFire V210 which should be fairly similar
> to yours.
> It's working fine. (I've got a single CPU only though.)
>
> I tried to make it less noisy, with moderate success. The
> trickiest
> part was to have the power supply accept a lower speed fan,
> because
> the PS evaluates the fan speed internally by itself with some
> analog
> circuitry.
>
> Unfortunately, as cool as the idea of the ALOM appears at
> first, with
> a standby power of ~ 15 W, you'd better power it off with a
> hardware
> switch while you don't need it.
>
>
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