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Using Live Upgrade To Apply Patches To Running Solaris 10 x86 30 January, 2012

The following is my procedure to patch a Sun x4540 booted on a ZFS filesystem with the 10_x86_Recommended_CPU_2012-01 patches from Oracle. # uname -a SunOS jumpstart 5.10 Generic_144489-17 i86pc i386 i86pcls # lustatus Boot Environment Name Is Complete Active Now Active On Reboot Can Delete Copy Status...

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Auto Negotiation of Speed and Duplex Failing on Solaris 10 bge interface 26 August, 2011

A Gigabit capable port on some Solaris 10 systems made by Broadcom has difficulty negotiating speed and duplex settings with Cisco network switches. To resolve the situation, the bge interface in question was manually set to 100BaseT Full Duplex as follows. Modified /platform/sun4u/kernel/drv/bge.conf by adding the...

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