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Operating Systems Solaris Solaris 64-bit to 32-bit Post 302228590 by praveenr on Monday 25th of August 2008 05:50:11 AM

08-25-2008

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Solaris 64-bit to 32-bit

I had previous implemented the following in my menu.lst to be able to get to 32-bit operations.

Code:

# 
title Solaris 10 32-bit
root (hd0,0,a)
kernel /platform/i86pc/multiboot kernel/unix
module /platform/i86pc/boot_archive

</code>
Now, it is not working as I get the following error :

Code:

Multiboot is no longer used to boot the Solaris Operating System.
The grub entry should be changed to 
kernel$ /platform/i86pc/kernel/$ISADIR/unix
module$ /platform/i86pc/$ISADIR/boot_archive

</code>
Now, if I do echo $ISADIR it is NULL with no output.
I got to do this, b'coz my VIA Rhine III vfe network drivers only work in 32-bit Solaris OS

Regards,
Praveen.

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npe

npe(7D) 							      Devices								   npe(7D)

NAME

       npe - PCI Express bus nexus driver

DESCRIPTION

       The npe nexus driver is used on X64 servers for PCI Express Root Complex devices that provide PCI Express interconnect. This driver is com-
       pliant to PCI Express base specification, Revision 1.0a.

       This nexus driver provides support for the following features: Access to  extended  configuration  space,  IEEE	1275  extensions  for  PCI
       Express, Base line PCI Express error handling and PCI Express MSI interrupts.

FILES

       /platform/i86pc/kernel/drv/npe

	   32-bit ELF kernel module.

       /platform/i86pc/kernel/drv/amd64/npe

	   64-bit ELF kernel module.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+------------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	     ATTRIBUTE VALUE	    |
       +-----------------------------+------------------------------+
       |Architecture		     |x64 PCI Express-based systems |
       +-----------------------------+------------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWcakr.i		    |
       +-----------------------------+------------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       attributes(5), pcie(4), pcie_pci(7D)

       PCI Express Base Specification v1.0a -- 2003

       Writing Device Drivers

       IEEE 1275 PCI Bus Binding -- 1998

       http://playground.sun.com/1275/bindings/pci/pci-express.txt

SunOS 5.11							    12 Oct 2005 							   npe(7D)