Re: New test kernel - second attempt
On Wed, 2025-09-17 at 16:08 +0200, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
> John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> > Looks like your machine has problems with power management.
>
> some feature previously not harnessed by older kernels?
Not necessarily a new feature, but simply how the hardware is being used
by the kernel. Could be hardware initialized in a different order etc.
> > Could be issues with the hardware. I would give Solaris 11.3 a try to verify
> > that the hardware is actually working properly.
>
> That one is unfortunately long gone. It did work years ago before I
> "linuxized" it.
>
> Thanks to ALOM, I can check for faults and see:
> sc> showfaults
> Last POST run: SAT JAN 01 02:15:39 2000
> POST status: Passed all devices
>
> ID FRU Fault
> 0 SC/BAT BATTERY at SC/BAT/V_BAT has exceeded low warning
> threshold.
>
> that should be minor, just my NVRAM battery going low? IIRC it is
> user-replacemable on the T2000... put that on my TODO.
We have had someone on the list who ran into weird crashes because of a corrupted
NVRAM. He only found out after test-installing Solaris on the machine confirming
that the issues weren't Linux-specific. Hence the advise to test Solaris 11.3.
Adrian
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