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 <r...@servium.ch> wrote: > >> On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 6:49 PM Alan Perry via cctech >> <cct...@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 >>
