On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 8:52 PM, mary ding <mary.ding at sun.com> wrote: > 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
Yes, that's what I did during my tests: On one machine I had all editor tabs open (and kept them), then I always copied a bldenv recompiled wanboot bin over to other box'es disks. (Some people, e.g.) Bernd Schemmer also once desribed it on Bigadmin: http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/content/submitted/wanboot_from_disk.html Actually it doesn't matter too much, on which medium it resides, as long as the medium can be booted off OBP (well, this limits it a bit to IDE/SCSI (and FCAL), SATA/SAS disk, CD/DVD, tape, arp/rarp). Of course with rare exceptions like the SF280R (or in other situations other boxes), where you get the annoying and feared media related mmu trap error. A good OBP-reference is the open src sun4v OBP code from opensparc.net as well as documentation such as from http://playground.sun.com/1275/, plus promif and related code and comments inside OS/Net. Still online, but now I go. I respond in a few hours, from home. Mary, thank your for your responses, bug-ids, references. Looks good now, looks as if we have it working now, on most boxes. Regards, %martin
