Hello Frank, Thanks for looking into this.
* What installation mode did you use? The "normal mode", similar to yours. * I always assumed that MAC addresses from the 08:00:20 block were only used with "older" Sun machines. They might, my blade has 8:0:20:c8:f4:a7, but historically had 00:03:ba:dc:0c:57; I had to change the nvram chip when its battery ran out, it's quite possible that the new one changed my blade's mac address, I would be surprised if this caused the issue, but it's not impossible. * Is there a chance that your local DHCP setup is not working properly? I highly doubt it, as it works well for another operating system on this blade, although after the dhcp client failure from the installer, I chose the option to setup the ip address manually, but it was unable to succeed doing so. Do you think the nvram swap caused this issue, and should I reprogram the chip to its former mac address? Jerome On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 11:07 AM, Frank Scheiner <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Jerome, > > On 02/21/2018 04:00 AM, Jerome Ibanes wrote: >> >> The same behavior is observed using >> https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/debian-9.0-sparc64-NETINST-1.iso >> Timestamped "2018-02-07 20:35" (md5=be24e824141daf81e8ca3640a1f59f9a) >> Hope this helps. > > > I fetched my Blade 100 (should be close enough to a Blade 150) from storage > and gave both the latest sparc64 ISO image ([1], dated 2018-02-16 23:09) at > Adrian's space and the official one ([2], dated 2018-02-07 20:35) a try > today. In contrast to what you experienced, I didn't experience any issues > with the network configuration done by the installer so far. > > [1]: > https://people.debian.org/~glaubitz/debian-cd/debian-9.0-sparc64-NETINST-1.iso > > [2]: > https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/debian-9.0-sparc64-NETINST-1.iso > > Installation was done in normal mode for both images. I stopped the > installation with the official one after network configuration succeeded. > > What installation mode did you use? > > We have the same OBP version and I assume apart from the CPU most of our > hardware should be identical. A difference is that your Blade 150 seems to > use a MAC address from the 08:00:20 block, whereas mine uses a MAC address > from the 00:03:ba block. I always assumed that MAC addresses from the > 08:00:20 block were only used with "older" Sun machines. But maybe the Blade > 100 and 150 were available with both. Shouldn't make a difference, but was > unexpected. > > Is there a chance that your local DHCP setup is not working properly? > > Or maybe I misunderstood you at this point: > > Did you expect an automatic configuration with DHCP from the installer or > were you manually configuring IP addresses in the installer dialogues and it > couldn't or didn't configure your network interface properly? > > I always use DHCP so never tested if the manual network configuration done > via the installer works. > > Cheers, > Frank
