i seem to recall that there are solaris 8 branded zones. if memory serves from one of the opensolaris conferences you can just untar your current setup in zone and boot it.
pick up a niagra or something from ebay -- less power more juice low cost. j. On Nov 22, 2013, at 7:40 PM, Reginald Beardsley <pulask...@yahoo.com> wrote: > FWIW If it is the NVRAM, it's probably not a big problem if you can get the > replacement part. I went through this mid 90's w/o any problems. Don't > actually recall what the system was as I had several then, but the 4/110 > seems a likely candidate. I'm pretty sure I was at the "won't boot" stage > when I discovered the problem. > > On the other hand, I think the cost of electricity is a pretty compelling > argument for system replacement. > > > -------------------------------------------- > On Fri, 11/22/13, James Carlson <carls...@workingcode.com> wrote: > > Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Offtopic question to old SPARC users > To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org > Date: Friday, November 22, 2013, 6:46 PM > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 11/22/2013 5:45 PM, Jim Klimov wrote: >> My hunch would be a dead battery on CMOS, or whatever > the analog of >> one would be. Any ideas where it might be located, and > what model >> it is (like CR2032 on Intel-compatibles)? Any more > ideas? > > Ouch. If it is the NVRAM/clock battery that's going > bad, you'll soon > have a brick on your hands. It won't be long until it > starts saying > "the IDPROM contents are invalid" and refuses to boot at > all. > > I would use the remaining time to plan a transition. I > know it's not > what you want to hear. But there are ETL companies out > there who > specialize in understanding old databases and transitioning > the > workload onto modern, faster, cheaper, better machines. > > Barring that, here's the FAQ about those old NVRAM devices: > > http://www.squirrel.com/squirrel/sun-nvram-hostid.faq > > I'd suggest trying www.mouser.com, www.jameco.com, or > www.digikey.com. > > Unless you're operating a hardware museum, there's probably > not a lot > of call to keep a 16 year old system consuming 1.664KW of > power. It's > time to put the old girl down. :-/ > > - -- > James Carlson 42.703N > 71.076W <carls...@workingcode.com> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) > > iEUEARECAAYFAlKP+wEACgkQ6TIHA1NkzvBUuwCeOZNBwvxaTViv5920cw5MkVoE > UVYAmOzPvAJr8Osx91O3wFueVx+sCx8= > =VVWO > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
