Mike and Peter: This is a known issue with wanboot and it impacts several platforms. The Sun Blade 1500/2500 is one of the impacted platform. The bugid is 6841969.
I had also run into the same issue with my SunBlade 1500. I had tried a newer version of OBP and it resolves the problem. What we need to resolve this bug is an externally available patch making this fix available for all known effected platforms. I will add your information to the bugid. Mike Gerdts wrote: > On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 7:56 AM, Peter Tribble<peter.tribble at gmail.com> > wrote: >> I've been trying to test AI, without much success. >> >> I have a sparc client - a SunBlade 1500. I've set up a spare x86 desktop with >> 2009.06 as the AI server. >> >> So I boot the client with net:dhcp, and discover that it's time to get >> a cup of coffee. > > Seems kinda odd (and a show-stopper) that wanboot now requires dhcp. > I've been meaning to ask about this for a while. > >> Downloading the wanboot image (175Meg - what on earth does it need 175M for?) >> takes *forever*. >> >> I waited 30 minutes. It gets most of the way through the download, but >> I got several >> errors like: >> >> alert: http_read:body: errsrc 1, err 4 (0x4) >> >> and eventually >> >> Fast Data Access MMU Miss >> Memory Address not Aligned >> Stack Underflow >> >> and ended up back at the ok prompt. >> >> This is a gigabit network on which I can sustain pretty close to wire >> speed between >> machines. (And it reports on the console that it's negotiating to 1000 >> full duplex as >> it should.) I've done hundreds of jumpstart installs in this >> environment without error. >> It ought to complete the initial download in seconds, not minutes, and >> it shouldn't fail. > > I've seen similar slowness (but not the failure) with wanboot on S10, > SXCE, and OpenSolaris 2009.06 preview. A graph of the download rate > is at... > > http://72.5.123.5/jive/servlet/JiveServlet/download/185-99937-366951-10825/wanboot-download.png > > And the related description.... > > http://72.5.123.5/jive/message.jspa?messageID=366871#366951 > >> A second boot attempt fails the same way. >> >> Any idea what's up? > > Not yet... >
