My mistake was to use Sun's latest (as of last Wednesday) Recommended

Patch set for Solaris 2.6, rather than the set of patches which came

with the 5/98 release of 2.6. The recommended set doesn't include

105654-03 which corrects the following bugs:

4095546 simba entry incorrect in driver_aliases file

4086747 IDE driver support needed for new hardware

4091036 need simba driver for Ultra-5/Ultra-10 platform

and without those it just won't boot. Thank you, Sun, it took quite a

few installs before I homed in on that one...

A genuine thanks to Ramindur Singh <tsi-he@tibco.com> for his suggestion.

Not the right answer but at least one other person cares ;->

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My original message appended here:

I farm several Ultra 5s, none of which have given me any problems.

Today I revisited the first we received which up to now has been

happily running Solaris 2.5.1. I installed Solaris 2.6 (5/98 vintage)

and now it won't boot. The reason it won't boot, is that it can't

load the PCI drivers. /devices/pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3 is indeed empty

and booting the system up over the net and typing a drvconfig -R /a

just gives me an error attempting to make each node (dad@0,0:a,

dad@0,0:a,raw, etc.) but doesn't tell me why... This machine is,

naturally, not maintained. I see some bugs reported on drvconfig

failing on Online Sunsolve but the workaround is simply to run it by

hand. I tried!

I know precious little about PCI buses. The machine's owner had

installed a spare IDE CD drive which he had lying around but failed to

make it work. I made him take it out and redid the install. Same

result. It's at OpenBoot level 3.11 and it's 270 MHz (if this makes

any difference).

Any ideas, anyone?

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Daf Tregear Department of Computer Science
Systems Manager University of Manchester
E-mail:daf@cs.man.ac.uk Oxford Road
Tel: +44 (0)161 275 6227 Manchester
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