Hi all,
On 05/13/2018 07:21 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote:
On 05/13/2018 01:11 PM, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On Sunday 2018-05-13 18:05, Dennis Clarke wrote:
Can you try the netboot image contained in this tarball [1]?
Hrmm .. new problem. I think that the firmware on ye older Sun Netra
type units was limited as to how much it could fetch and deal with
for a "net boot" process. Looks to be precisely 10MB :
And I wonder if they ever bumped it at all, because it is not a
problem for
Solaris, and 10 MB is ample space for a "bootloader" of sorts (think
wanboot(1m)/inetboot(1m)). Perhaps grub2 is the answer to that, since
I have
never gotten TILO to do it.
Me neither. I tested my setup of tftp/dhcp/nfs etc with a net install
of Solaris 10 u11 and that works fine. That is actually using grub from
way back at version 1.97 ( or there abouts ) however it was madly hacked
inside Sun and then more hackary was done during the OpenSolaris
project. Definately grub. I should go have a look and see if I have the
sources laying about somewhere. Could be useful.
Regardless ... I will keep poking at this with a stick and see what I
can come up with.
Sorry, I'm a little late but was quite occupied by other things recently.
I'm using GRUB2 for netbooting my UltraSPARC and NewWorld PowerPC gear
since a while and also already started to document the process to get it
going. But for netbooting it can get quite elaborate if you want to
write an all-in-one how-to (incl. all needed or useful services, e.g.
RARP, DNS, DHCP, TFTP and NFS) so one easily gets carried away and
rambles on. :-/
But as the GRUB2 part alone is already useful for people that are
familiar with the supporting service infrastructure, I just finished up
this part and put it into the Debian wiki. I will add more information
later if need be - I have to check the available information about
network services first.
The methods described on [1] work for me to network boot my UltraSPARC
gear, but you need kernel and initramfs as separate files.
Cheers,
Frank
[1]: https://wiki.debian.org/Sparc64#Network_booting
