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Sun Fire V60x and Sun Fire V65x Server Release Notes • July 2003
General Boot and Installation Issues
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If both the Diagnostic Service Partition and Solaris operating environment are
installed on your system and you press the F4 key while the BIOS POST is
running, you will not be able to access the Service Partition. To access the Service
Partition, let the system continue to boot up, and when the Solaris Primary Boot
Subsystem menu displays, select DIAGNOSTIC partition.
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Occasionally, when using a Keyboard, Video and Mouse (KVM) switch, and
sometimes even with the direct keyboard/video/mouse configurations, the
kdmconfig
screens may display when Solaris reboots. If this occurs, go through
the
kdmconfig
configuration screens again to continue.
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During Solaris installation on the Sun Fire V60x server or the Sun Fire V65x
server, the Device Configuration Assistant (DCA) reports a resource conflict with
the Floppy Disk Controller. It is reported as both an ACPI and non-ACPI device
in the Bus Enumeration screen. When you see this message, ignore the warning
and press Enter to continue.
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The
kadb
kernel debugger does not work properly in GUI (CDE or GNOME)
mode. Although the keyboard entry sequence F1-A does initiate a
kadb
session,
the
kadb
prompt is not displayed. Therefore, the system appears to be hung but is
actually waiting at an invisible
kadb
prompt.
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If you initiate a
kadb
session and a
kadb
prompt does not display, press :+C
(the : key, then the C key).
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If you want to use a
kadb
session, access the session via text mode on a console
or run a tip session through the serial line.
Network Interfaces
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Adding or removing network PCI cards will change the labelling order for the on-
board network interfaces. Prior to adding an additional gigabit card, the on-board
Ethernet ports will be assigned to e1000g0 and e1000g1.
If, for example, you subsequently install an add-on Intel gigabit PCI card (single
port), the new card's port will be assigned to e1000g0, while the on-board ports
will be reassigned to e1000g1 and e1000g2.
