Casper.Dik at Sun.COM wrote:
>> I've been trying to get Solaris Express b40 loaded onto my Ultrabook IIi
>> and Sun Blade 100 machines, using netboot.
>>
>> I've not had any luck at all getting either platform to netboot properly
>> -- they start the kernel load, and shortly after displaying the Sun
>> copyright message just hang. Anyone else experienced this? It's making
>> it hard for me to test my changes to the Atheros driver to support SPARC.
>>
>
> It's been a while since I netbooted my S150, but I would assume it still
> works.
>
> What does "boot -v" show you?
>
I'm going to have to eat some of my words. The UBIIi did get b40 on it,
what didn't install b40 was a desktop U10. Aargh. Sorry 'bout that.
On the Ultra 10:
cpu0: UltraSPARC-IIi (portid 0 impl 0x12 ver 0x90 clock 440 MHz)
message overflow on /dev/log minor #5 -- is syslogd(1M) running?
Then it appears stuck. The Sun Blade 100 had the same last line about
the message overflow. None of the other output lines looked abnormal.
I don't have a serial console hooked up right now, so I can't cut and
paste the whole log.
For the record, I'm using an image of the dvd, exported via NFS. The
image is mounted locally on the NFS server using lofs/lofiadm.
This image _did_ boot/install on the UBIIi.
> Headless or with graphics?
>
With graphics, onboard in both cases.
> With/without keyboard?
>
With, in both cases.
> Using DHCP or RARP?
>
RARP.
> Did you install the proper (recent) inetboot on the server?
>
I ran setup_install_server on the NFS server from the b40 DVD.
> Note that there's a substantial pause after booting when
> X and java are unpacked, memory permitting.
>
Unless the pause lasts many hours (more than 10), I don't think this is it.
-- Garrett
> Casper
>
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