FYI, I'm downloading b42a of the community express edition, and will try
that out shortly.
-- Garrett
Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> 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
>>
>>
>
>
>
--
Garrett D'Amore, Principal Software Engineer
Tadpole Computer / Computing Technologies Division,
General Dynamics C4 Systems
http://www.tadpolecomputer.com/
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