19 Feb
2019
19 Feb
'19
8:50 a.m.
Thanks.
It has been reported that Solaris 2.5.1 does work with the 604e, which the 7043-140 has,
so I will be looking for another box to run 2.5.1 PPC on.
I worked for Sun on Solaris back when the PPC port was done (and work for Oracle now on
Solaris). I asked among Solaris folks (current and former) about PPC compilers and
?possibly gcc 2.95 otherwise cross compiling? was suggested.
alan
On Feb 19, 2019, at 3:09 AM, Rico Pajarola <rp at
servium.ch> wrote:
On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 6:49 PM Alan Perry via
cctech <cctech at classiccmp.org> wrote:
Is there some trick to making boot floppies for the RS/6000 7043-140 (a
mid-90s PReP architecture machine)?
I initially tried to install Solaris 2.5.1 on it and created the boot
#wrong43p
Solaris 2.5.1 PPC doesn't work on that machine.
I can't find the HCL doc, but according to the files present on the CD it runs on:
IBM 6040 (ThinkPad 820)
IBM 6042 (ThinkPad 850)
IBM 6015 (PowerSeries 440, 7020-40P)
IBM 6050 (PowerSeries 830, 7248-43P)
IBM 6070 (PowerSeries 850, 7248-43P)
IBM 7248 (43P-100, 43P-120, 43P-132)
Motorola PowerStack Series DT/E/MT
The 7248-43P is substantially different from a 7043-140 "43P". I have it
running on a PowerStack Series E.
Did anyone ever unearth the Sun compiler for that?
> floppy by dd'ing the image using a SPARCstation (running NetBSD). I
> dd'ed the image over, dd'ed it back and verified the SPARCstation could
> read back what it had written to the floppy. The RS/6000 loads what is
> on the floppy, but hangs transferring control to what it loaded.
>
> The 7043-140 does not appear on the list of supported systems in the
> Solaris 2.5.1 release notes, so, even though 2.5.1 supports PReP and the
> 7043-140 is a PReP machine, maybe they aren't compatible, so I tried
> NetBSD. The 7043-140 is listed as a supported system.
>
> The NetBSD boot floppy images are confusing to me. The files are too
> large to fit on a 1.44M floppy. I didn't see instructions on how to make
> boot floppies out of the .fs files one can download in the install
> instructions. I went ahead and tried to dd the part that fits onto a
> 1.44M floppy and try to boot that and of course that failed. I have
> e-mailed the NetBSD prep mailing list and no response from that.
>
> The system does boot the AIX install on one of its hard disks, but this
> is a recycled system and I don't have usernames/passwords for that install.
>
> Does anyone here have a suggestion on how to proceed?
>
> alan
>