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Fix freezing Solaris kernel on boot

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During an attempt to install Solaris on a real machine, I found a strange bug that caused Solaris kernel to freeze on the first boot.

This affected all post-skylake systems regardless of drive type so I originally suspected it to be related to the xHCI handoff bug with hackintosh setups, but it was actually something different.

With -v option, the last debug message shown was

root on /ramdisk:a fstype ufs

No other mentions of such bug were found on any solaris forums, but hopefully I found a similar issue on SmartOS, a solaris baed bare-metal OS: https://github.com/joyent/smartos-live/issues/727

For me, disabling both C7 states and Intel SpeedStep in BIOS setup fixed the issue, and Solaris kernel could boot up again like normal.

 

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Installing PHP 5.4 on Solaris 11

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$ wget -O php.tar.bz2 http://link/to/the/php/file
$ tar xvjf php.tar.bz2
$ cd php-5.4.*
$ ./configure –with-apxs2=/usr/apache2/2.2/bin/apxs –prefix=/usr/php/5.4
$ gsed -ibak ‘s,\-mt,,’ Makefile
$ gsed -i.bak ‘s,\-i \-a \-n php5 libphp5\.la,-i -n php5 libphp5.la,’ Makefile
$ gmake -j16

make a copy of php/php5.3.conf and rename it to php5.4.conf

Replace in the file: 5.3 with 5.4
and replace the original module with: LoadModule php5_module libexec/libphp5.so

then change php.conf and redirect the includes to the new php5.4.conf file