by Berk S. Daemo » Sat, 13 Apr 2002 11:46:19
#option DUMMY_NOPS # speed hack; recommended
From the comment it says speed hack; recommended. But if it's recommended,
why is it disabled by default?
Just curious about this...
TIA!
Regards.
by Ted » Sat, 13 Apr 2002 12:25:14
> #option DUMMY_NOPS # speed hack; recommended
Some computers need NOPs and bad things happen when they are missing.Quote:> From the comment it says speed hack; recommended. But if it's recommended,
> why is it disabled by default?
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by Berk S. Daemo » Sat, 13 Apr 2002 13:18:19
> > Anyone able to explain maybe roughly what DUMMY_NOPS is for?
> > #option DUMMY_NOPS # speed hack; recommended
> It makes some assembly sequences faster by leaving out the NOPs. These
> are sometimes needed to slow things down, but most CPUs get along without
> them now.
> > From the comment it says speed hack; recommended. But if it's
recommended,
> > why is it disabled by default?
> Some computers need NOPs and bad things happen when they are missing.
> GENERIC has to support as many systems as possible.
Hello Guys,
After applying in single user mode the following patches on a Sun
W1100z workstation running Solaris 10 x86/64 03/05,
118344-08-SunOS 5.10_x86: Fault Manager Patch
118966-19-X11 6.8.0_x86: Xorg patch
119060-12-X11 6.6.2_x86: Xsun patch
119116-17-Mozilla 1.7_x86 patch
119549-04-GNOME 2.6.0_x86: Gnome Multi-protocol instant messaging
client Pat
119901-02-GNOME 2.6.0_x86: Gnome libtiff - library for reading and
writing T
122035-01-SunOS 5.10_x86: nawk patch
122857-02-SunOS 5.10_x86: sendmail patch
118372-07-SunOS 5.10_x86: elfsign Patch
118855-02-SunOS 5.10_x86: kernel patch
118919-12-SunOS 5.10_x86: Solaris Crypto Framework patch
119131-19-SunOS 5.10_x86: Sun Fibre Channel Device Drivers
120901-03-SunOS 5.10_x86: libzonecfg patch
121334-02-SunOS 5.10_x86: zoneadmd, zlogin and zoneadm patch
119255-19-SunOS 5.10_x86: Install and Patch Utilities Patch
120255-02-SunOS 5.10_x86: ufs Patch
122033-02-SunOS 5.10_x86: Update timezones patch
I rebooted the system and it came up with a "panic: cannot mount boot
archive".
Googling around, I kind of found out how to get around this, which is:
I booted from cdrom 1 of Solaris 10 x86 (01/06) and ran the following:
# mount /dev/dsk/c0d0s0 /a
# bootadm update-archive -f -R /a
Now the W1100z boots up fine, but still, comparing the grub menu
options on the W1100z (natively 03/05) to another one (32 bit,
unfortunately) which I have installed from scratch with the 01/06
media, there is no "Solaris failsafe" boot option.
On the 32bit 01/06 box, I can see the following in /boot/grub/menu.lst
#---------- ADDED BY BOOTADM - DO NOT EDIT ----------
title Solaris failsafe
root (hd0,0,a)
kernel /boot/multiboot kernel/unix -s
module /boot/x86.miniroot-safe
#---------------------END BOOTADM--------------------
With /boot/multiboot and /boot/x86.miniroot-safe existing under /boot.
But, these files are not present on the 64 bit W1100z.
Any idea about how to get this sorted?
Thanks in advance
Loris
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