Turns out it was the vmware servers - we can't get it to allow us to run in 64-bit mode. Thanks to all who tried to help. -Ronelle -----Original Message----- From: A Darren Dunham [mailto:ddunham@taos.com] Sent: 21 July 2008 06:38 PM To: Ronelle van Niekerk Subject: Re: Boot Solaris 10 X86 in 64-bit On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 11:08:06AM +0200, Ronelle van Niekerk wrote: > Guys, > > We're trying to install Solaris 10 x86 on a vmware esx server. > > We've configured the virtual machine to 64-bit and to accept solaris as > a bootable OS (I don't know much about this bit.) I wonder if there was a problem here. > Solaris won't boot in 64-bit mode and choosing the kernel/amd64/unix > won't force it - it come sup with a processor error. 64-bit is the default after installation if the hardware supports it. During installation, only a 32-bit version is used. Can you show the output of 'psrinfo -vp'? -- Darren _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Mon Jul 21 13:12:24 2008
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