Martin: BTW, with the fix for bugid 6797441, you can actually copy the fixed wanboot binary to /platform/sun4u/wanboot on your current system. Then you can boot from disk instead of CD/DVD to do wanboot install. This make testing easier.
ok boot disk -o prompt -F wanboot - install mary ding wrote: > Martin: > > We are aware of the problem with trying to get AI to work on older sun4u > boxes. When we did the sparc 2009.01.06 support, we are aware of > problems with booting sun4u. We also had s10 updates customers filing > bugs against wanboot. > > I filed the following bugs to track the issues that we found with > nevada/s10 update wanboot install support. > > 6797441 - wanboot fails to configure network device when booted from media > 6805094 - wanboot install from snv and s10u6/s10u7_04 fails after > loading miniroot. > > With the fix for 6797441, I can finally do wanboot install from media > and disk on older platforms. > > However, AI install for osol works differently and we still had issues > on older platforms. We had filed the following bug to track the > additional issues on older sun4u platforms: > > 6820873 - Export wanboot arguments so that Automated installer can use them > > > > > > Martin Bochnig wrote: >> On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 6:54 PM, Danil Smirnov >> <danil.smirnov at gmail.com> wrote: >>> Is anybody here who have successfully installed Opensolaris on Ultra 10? >>> >>> This article >>> http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=99516&tstart=0 >>> says that I need OBP level of 4.17 or greater for automated >>> Installer. But it looks like >>> latest OBP version for Ultra 10 is 3.31... :-( >>> >>> I tried to boot from build 111 by `boot cdrom` command nut it says: >>> "Bad magic number in disk label >>> Can't open disk label package >>> Evaluating: boot cdrom >>> Can't open boot device" >>> >>> Could you please advice some other method to install Opensolaris? I >>> have Solaris 10 installed on the workstation... >> >> >> >> Hello, the AI iso is not meant to be bootable. >> Please subscribe to caiman discuss. >> Follow Sun's instructions (and run into the next bug on almost all pre >> 4.17.1 legacy sun4u platforms, which I found and for which I >> finalllllly found a fix after 2 weeks of insomnia: >> http://opensolaris.org/os/project/caiman/auto_install/Documentation/ >> >> >> Be sure to read my recent posts to caiman-discuss (and PLEASE confirm >> that this bug exists, thank you) : >> >> http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=101275&tstart=0 >> >> Yes, with my patches it now works on the Ultra 10. >> p.s. You won't need to mess around with bare metal when setting up the >> install and dhcp servers (best in same subnet as client and both >> servers on same machine, follow the "simple instructions" in the >> guide). >> However: No bare metal is needed for the server, I successfully use >> VirtualBox for this, with x86/x64 OpenSolaris 2009.06.111 (don't take >> 111a) as guest, and switch VirtualBox's Networking from NAT to >> Bridging. >> For convenience I can upload the hdd guest image for you. >> Otherwise take the iso's gently provided by Ben Rockwood and Al Hopper >> from genunix.org. >> >> If you run into whatever SPARC-specific trouble, always feel free to >> ping the me via the lists. >> >> Long live sun4u (and me). >> >> >> %martin >> _______________________________________________ >> indiana-discuss mailing list >> indiana-discuss at opensolaris.org >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss > > _______________________________________________ > indiana-discuss mailing list > indiana-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
