Re: Upgrading openboot
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 You need to setup a RARPD to assign your U5 an ip address and also a tftp server to serve it the upgrade file. If your other system is a debian one then this couldnt be much easier. `aptitude install rarpd atftpd` Create /etc/ethers with the syntax shown in ethers(5) Put the sun openboot upgrade image in /tftpboot and link to it with the name coresponding to the ip address you gave in /etc/ethers except in capitalised hex format. e.g. 127.0.0.1 == 7F01 10.20.0.1 == 0A140001 Now this is set up you can power on teh U5, STOP-A before the bootloader or whatever is started and type `boot net` The U5 will make a rarp request and the other machine running rarpd should respond immediately (although it did take many attempts to get the response on one occasion) Then the U5 will load and execute the image.. Eatch the logfiles for debugging info Hope this helps, YMMV - -- David Leggett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Get my public GPG key from http://www.asguard.org.uk/~david/gpg/david.asc Fingerprint: 56E3 5457 49DA 60D8 A2D6 9199 EE8A F3B1 0ADA D289 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFA+U+d7orzsQra0okRAisOAJ97ImUEP7epSV+OImSDdV+wHBoRCwCfVegj AdVsn4Xf2YfgLcLg+UwJxaM= =Z66L -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Upgrading openboot
Hi David, Just read the posting you had with regard to upgrading openboot. I am having similar problems with my Ultra 5. Being fairly new to Sun systems, I wondered how I might try the netboot option that was suggested. Simple instructions for the newbie please. Cheers Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upgrading openboot
On Saturday 27 March 2004 22:13, Clint Adams wrote: > > Can i upgrade openboot with silo or do i need to use suns bootloader, > > whatever that might be? > > You could netboot the prom upgrade via RARP/TFTP. Which is a fine idea indeed new openboot installed and running wonderfully Sun Ultra 5/10 UPA/PCI (UltraSPARC-IIi 270MHz), Keyboard Present OpenBoot 3.31, 128 MB (50 ns) memory installed, Serial #11025073. Ethernet address 8:0:20:a8:3a:b1, Host ID: 80a83ab1. thanks alot! -- David Leggett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Get my public GPG key from http://www.asguard.org.uk/~david/david.asc Fingerprint: 51FA 58C2 0515 D0EE 7EA6 5AEB D944 B73E 5151 764
Re: Upgrading openboot
> Can i upgrade openboot with silo or do i need to use suns bootloader, > whatever > that might be? You could netboot the prom upgrade via RARP/TFTP.
Upgrading openboot
Hello Debian/Ultra5 users (and silo developers?) I have been attempting to upgrade my ultra5's openboot to the latest version which i downloaded from sunsolve (patch 106121-18). Aparently the version of openboot that is currently installed into the prom is 3.15 ok .version Release 3.15 Version 2 created 1998/11/10 10:35 OBP 3.15.2 1998/11/10 10:35 POST 2.3.1 1998/08/07 16:33 This doesnt support net booting with dhcp which I require for some testing with diskless sparcs. However when i try to boot the flash update utility (following http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doc=fpatches/106121> i get the following output: boot: /flash-update-Ultra510-latest Allocated 8 Megs of memory at 0x4000 for kernel / Fatal error: Multiple loadable segments in your ELF image Program terminated ok Can i upgrade openboot with silo or do i need to use suns bootloader, whatever that might be? -- David Leggett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Get my public GPG key from http://www.asguard.org.uk/~david/david.asc Fingerprint: 51FA 58C2 0515 D0EE 7EA6 5AEB D944 B73E 5151 764
