On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 7:56 AM, Peter Tribble<peter.tribble at gmail.com> wrote: > I've been trying to test AI, without much success. > > I have a sparc client - a SunBlade 1500. I've set up a spare x86 desktop with > 2009.06 as the AI server. > > So I boot the client with net:dhcp, and discover that it's time to get > a cup of coffee.
Seems kinda odd (and a show-stopper) that wanboot now requires dhcp. I've been meaning to ask about this for a while. > Downloading the wanboot image (175Meg - what on earth does it need 175M for?) > takes *forever*. > > I waited 30 minutes. It gets most of the way through the download, but > I got several > errors like: > > alert: http_read:body: errsrc 1, err 4 (0x4) > > and eventually > > Fast Data Access MMU Miss > Memory Address not Aligned > Stack Underflow > > and ended up back at the ok prompt. > > This is a gigabit network on which I can sustain pretty close to wire > speed between > machines. (And it reports on the console that it's negotiating to 1000 > full duplex as > it should.) I've done hundreds of jumpstart installs in this > environment without error. > It ought to complete the initial download in seconds, not minutes, and > it shouldn't fail. I've seen similar slowness (but not the failure) with wanboot on S10, SXCE, and OpenSolaris 2009.06 preview. A graph of the download rate is at... http://72.5.123.5/jive/servlet/JiveServlet/download/185-99937-366951-10825/wanboot-download.png And the related description.... http://72.5.123.5/jive/message.jspa?messageID=366871#366951 > A second boot attempt fails the same way. > > Any idea what's up? Not yet... -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/
