Jeffrey: The Sunblade 2000 support wanboot but it only works if you boot from a Solaris CD1/DVD. Since the sparc AI will just work with wanboot from net, it will not work.
The following internal website about wanboot is helpful and it gives you a list of systems that support wanboot and the minimum OBP level needed. http://onestop.sfbay.sun.com/wanboot/ Jack Schwartz wrote: > HI Jeffrey. > > Yes, a 2000 is too old. > > Thanks, > Jack > > On 01/22/09 02:02, jeffrey huang wrote: >> Hi, Jack, >> >> I tried a sun4u machine Blade 2000, the AI boot failed with TFTP error, >> >> I guess it is because the OBP is too old that not support wanboot, right? >> >> Thanks >> >> Jeffrey >> Jack Schwartz ??: >>> Hi Volker. >>> >>> While the current AI product version will officially support only sun4v >>> installs when completed, it also works on many sun4u machines. There >>> has not been any official rigorous test-team testing done on sun4u >>> systems, but later-model sun4u systems which support wanboot over the >>> net have been found to work during unit testing done during development. >>> >>> Some of these systems include ultra45, v445, v215, v245. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Jack >>> >>>> -------- Original Message -------- >>>> Subject: Re: [caiman-discuss] We're there! >>>> Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 15:38:00 +0100 >>>> From: Volker A. Brandt <vab at bb-c.de> >>>> To: Jack Schwartz <Jack.A.Schwartz at Sun.COM> >>>> CC: caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org >>>> References: <497141B9.8040608 at sun.com> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> At this point we have a working AI sun4v install, and we have a short >>>>> list of issues we understand and can live with. It's time to get the AI >>>>> test team more involved... >>>>> >>>> Very good, congrats! >>>> >>>> Now if only you had something for sun4u to leverage community testing... >>>> since 99.99% of all non-Sun community members won't have a spare Niagara >>>> box sitting around. >>>> >>>> Any guesses on ETA for sun4u? >>>> >>>> >>>> Regards -- Volker >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> caiman-discuss mailing list >>> caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org >>> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss >>> >> >> -- >> Great Thanks & Best Regards >> >> --- >> Jeffrey Huang SWAN: x51683, Ext: 0086-10-62673683 >> Solaris QE Group Email: jeffrey.huang at sun.com >> China Engineering & Research Institute, Sun Microsystems >> 7/F Chuang Xin Plaza, Tsinghua Science Park, Beijing China >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > caiman-discuss mailing list > caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss
