Hi all,

I have an Ultra 60 here, which previously dualbooted Solaris 10 and Gentoo Sparc64. Because of limited diskspace, and the fact I hardly ever use the Gentoo (It takes _way_ to long to build on this old machine), I decided to reinstall Solaris and use both disks.

The installation seemed to go fine, and it cycled through the four install disks happily copying software. It seemed to finish just fine, but upon rebooting the machine starts up, loads CDE, and asks me "from which media do you want to install Solaris Software 2?" or somesuch. So I put in disk 2 again, and after this it hangs at "Solaris will install the following software" but the list is empty.

Does the installer copy all the selected software in two passes? Note then when rebooting I have taken out the install CD, so it would appear that the install was not finished. Not too sure what is going on here as the first install (about 11-12 months ago?) went just fine.

Any ideas what is up with this? Did I pooch the install somehow?

And another issue, in the openprom I am intermittently seeing hundreds of messages scrolling by very fast. The are like:

"Sticky softerror in module V0801"

or something. They scroll by way to fast to read them so I cannot get the exact wording. I have gleamed from the service manual that V0801 is one of my memory modules. Do I need to remove this module? I hope not because then I would have to remove the other three in that block. Can I safely ignore this error? As I say it seems to come and go...

I tried doing the POST test but it seems you need a serial console to see the results. Is there a way to make the POST test appear on the monitor?

Thanks, and sorry for the long winded post. If I have forgotten to mention a pertinant detail just let me know.