Re: Installation problem on Tyan Thunder KW8E S2895 motherboard.

Hello,

> The odd thing is when it boots, is says:
> 
> SunOS Release 5.11 Version snv_33 32-bit
> 
> yet this is a 64-bit CPU. Is that right? Perhaps
> there is only 32-bit distributed in Solaris Express.

No, this is the message you got when booting from the installation CD/DVD, but 
the right version (64-bit) is installed on the hard-drive.

> But things don't go too well:
> 
> Copyright 1983-2005 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights
> reserved.
> Use is subject to license terms.
> WARNING: Failed to program IO space [0/1/1] BAR@0x10
> length 0x20

AFAIK, this indicates that the system has not been able to allocate the 
required I/O resources for that device (Bus: 0, device: 1, function: 1), during 
the second PCI configuration pass.

Setting the -kv options could give more information.

Regards,

J-F
 
 
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