Solaris 8 on Sparc32 - Broken by 1056 changes

[P. Wilhelm]

This past Friday I tried the 1056 version of sparc32 OpenBIOS and found 
that Solaris 8 hangs during the OS initialization (during the second 
period when the spinning line (-, , |, /, -) occurs).

The last version of OpenBIOS I had been using was 1047 which seemed to 
work Ok. So, I incrementally checked versions 1048-1056. The boot works 
on all but 1056, so it looks like something with the memory changes in 
1055 broke the Solaris 8 boot.

I am booting from a virtual hard disk upon which I had previously 
installed Solaris 8 using Qemu (installed from Solaris 8 install CDs).

Let me know if you need any specific information about Qemu arguments.

Respectfully,
Paul