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.

Cheers. 

> 
> > 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

How does one set the -kv option?  If it was SPARC I would know how to give 
options when booting from CD, but I have no ideal on x86.
 
 
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