I forgot to re-run setup install server with b42a. I scrubbed
everything and started over, and now it is booting. Not sure what was
wrong initially. Go figure.
-- Garrett
Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> I confirm that the problem still happens with boot net - install -v, and
> that b42a (community edition of Sol. Express) exhibits the same
> problem. Btw, boot net - install -v suppresses the -v output. I think
> boot net -v install is the correct syntax here. In any case, it didn't
> help me get any further.)
>
> FWIW, I know its almost certainly not hardware. This system boots up
> NetBSD of the internal disk just fine. (I was trying to install Solaris
> Express over NetBSD, fwiw.)
>
>
> Casper.Dik at Sun.COM wrote:
>
>>> 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?
>>>
>>>
>> Hm. I'm installing a U10 all the time; strange.
>>
>>
>
> Do you boot net - install? Although, based on the dmesg output, it
> isn't clear to me whether the problem is in the network install or not.
>
> I'm going to try kadb booting and see where the stack trace leads me. :-)
>
> - Garrett
>
>
>>
>>
>>>> Using DHCP or RARP?
>>>>
>>>>
>>> RARP.
>>>
>>>
>> Well, I'm most used to using DHCP now. Could you try "boot net - install -v"
>> and tell us what happens?
>>
>>
>>
>>>> Did you install the proper (recent) inetboot on the server?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> I ran setup_install_server on the NFS server from the b40 DVD.
>>>
>>>
>> Should be fine then.
>>
>>
>>
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>> No, that's not expected.
>>
>> Casper
>>
>>
>
>
>
--
Garrett D'Amore, Principal Software Engineer
Tadpole Computer / Computing Technologies Division,
General Dynamics C4 Systems
http://www.tadpolecomputer.com/
Phone: 951 325-2134 Fax: 951 325-2191
