Solaris 2.1 on a Sun 4/260

Solaris 2.1 on a Sun 4/260

Post by Steve Hu » Wed, 19 May 1993 05:13:15



I am having trouble installing Solaris 2.1 on a Sun 4/260. When I
boot the system, I get the following:

        SunOS Release 5.1 Version Generic [UNIX System V R4]
        Blah...blah

        FPU version 0 present but not supported


        panic: vfs_mountroot: cannot mount root
        rebooting

On the 4/260 we have ROM rev 3.0, 32MB RAM, xy disk. At first some sun tech
told me that we needed to install a newer SCSI controller to reconginze the
CDROM, but I can successfully boot 4.1.3 on the system.
If anyone has any idea, it would greatly be appreciated.

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