Comments on: More CDROM madness.

By: neozeed

neozeed — Tue, 14 Jan 2014 00:27:09 +0000

In reply to Lorenzo.

It seems SUN equipment is getting popular again… a few other people were asking about the stuff… Also don’t forget how SUN likes to put the CD at weird ID’s like 2 or 6..

By: Lorenzo

Lorenzo — Tue, 14 Jan 2014 00:01:51 +0000

I’m adding a quick reminder to myself: if you’re working with a real machine whithout a CD drive, check how to set 512 block size on the drive (CD drives usually have an 8192 block size) before going mad while trying to boot from that drive…

By: neozeed

neozeed — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 21:02:48 +0000

In reply to Michael.

wow sounds like its come much further along.. Id try dd’ing around with the disk to see how it behaves…

What version of Qemu is that you are using?

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 20:56:21 +0000

Hello. I got the Sunos to boot using: “sparc-softmmu/qemu-system-sparc -M SS5 -bios ./ss5.bin -nographic -hda ./hda.img -hdb ./cd.sio”

Then I get the ok prompt. I type in boot disk1:d -vs and it boots up to the install of sunos 4.1.4 (asking me if I want to install the mini root). I say yes. Then it asks me which disk – i point to the virtual disk I created. It then asks me to format it. I go through all the partitioning, etc. When I finally write and then format – it gives me an error thati t can’t read or write to it. Fatal Error.

Any words of wisdom? I am using everything new and updated. I’m on a poweredge 2400

By: Robert Dinse

Robert Dinse — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 16:40:05 +0000

I don’t understand the statement about SunOS having a problem with too much memory and 256mb is too much? I have an operating (still) shell server with SunOS 4.1.4 and 512k or RAM, Ross Hypersparc CPUs and if anything it could use more RAM not less.

For those who might be interested in playing with it, you can apply for a trial shell account for free at the above website.

I got interested in this thread primarily because I want to retire this old piece of hardware but keep it alive for nostalgic reasons, hence the interest in emulating it with Qemu.

By: Roy

Roy — Fri, 25 May 2012 08:26:54 +0000

Did you try again with 0.15.1?
I can copy miniroot to sd3b and boot from it, but no further installation can be done.

By: Neozeed

Neozeed — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 22:11:24 +0000

Huh, now thats interesting…. But it makes sense, I don't think there is any way someone could have afforded 256MB of ram back when SunOS ruled the world…..

By: atar

atar — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 20:51:08 +0000

bah. Didn't noticed this. SunOS 4.1.4 turned out to have a problem with too much memory. And 256m is too much. Unfortunately that's the only amount or RAM supported in vanilla qemu with OBP.