SUMMARY: FW: Ultra 5 boots into 64 bit with Solaris 7 on boot -r
James Coby
Aquick response from the following people pointed me to the correct
location.
Casper Dik
Ross Poffenberger
Grant Lowe
It was on Caspers FAQ page unfortunately I'd changed positions and lost my
bookmarks.
A big thank you to all.
Regards,
JIm
The solaris FAQ says:
3.63) How can I boot a 32 bit kernel when a 64 bit kernel is installed?
From the "ok" prompt, type "boot kernel/unix".
Setting the "boot-file" in the EEPROM to "kernel/unix" makes it
the default kernel. Alternatively, you can move away the sparcv9/unix
file in which case the boot loader will fall back to the 32 bit kernel.
Patch installation may restore that file, though.
Beware: when specifying "boot -s", or any boot command with flag
arguments, the standard default kernel/sparcv9/unix kernel will be
booted; you need to specify "boot kernel/unix -s".
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