Hey dear Caiman crowd, did you meanwhile find a fix for http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=354907񖩛 http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/caiman-discuss/2009-March/009848.html
<<<<<<QUOTE>>>>>> Currently we only support sun4u systems that are capable of using wanboot with network-boot-arguments arguments. YOu can find out by running eeprom. This is supported on all sun4v. For sun4u, I know they are supported on ultra45, sb2500, sb100, sb150, v215, v245, v480, v240 ... etc. As long as the OBP is 4.17.1 or higher, they will work. For other sun4u systems that is not capable of doing wanboot from network, there are bugs in wanboot itself. After the wanboot bugs are fixed, we will need to try to see whether it is possible to get those other sun4u machine to work with AI. This will not be ready for 2009.1H. 6797441 - wanboot fails to configure network device when booted from media 6805094 - wanboot install from snv and s10u6/s10u7_04 fails after loading miniroot. I will suggest that you add yourself to the bug interest lists. There will be bug fixes available later and then we can try to come up with some workaround to see whether they will work. <<<<<</QUOTE>>>>>> ?? I burnt a few nights and finally (after almost getting mad, due to the lack of proper debugging for wanboot, other than snoop -v'ing) found the somewhat hidden solution. If you like to test, I can upload it right today. Or is this bug already fixed (Infinitely printing "Requesting Ethernet address for 192.168.111.65" (The install and dhcp server in the same subnet / no router and no proxy, whatever mixture of those setups ... ) ?? Now I have it working on every legacy sun4u workstation I tested so far, for example Blade 100 or 150 with pre 4.17.1-OBP, Ultra 10 with 3.1x OBP, SunFire 280erver R with 4.16.4, SunBlade 1000/2000 with 4.16.4 (same board as Blade 1000, but loads another OBP-subimage if RSC is detected during POST, which does make this box'es behavior indeed quite different in various points, even with exactly the same OBP version). Versionitis is not unimportant because at different parts in OS/Net, not only in promif but also in the TCP/IP stack, assumptions (and sometimes mis-assumptions) are being made, what behavior the underlying OBP level might or or might not feature. Regards, %martin
