I'm currently in the middle of installing a pair of Sun X4500s (thumpers). I have some oddities to report and a question.
1/. When I first tried to boot the thumper "out of the box", it eventually stops with "Bad PBR sig". At that point I believe the disks should have had a Solaris 10 pre-install on. 2/. I then set up an auto-install server with x86 images and standard manifests etc and try to boot that. I get a grub screen offering opensolaris 2009.06, but when I select that, it then ends (as others pointed out a few months ago) with "Error 20: Multiboot kernel must be loaded before modules" 3/. I then attached an external DVD drive and I started from there with a live CD of OpenSolaris 2009.06. That boots o.k.. I was a bit surprised that the two boot disks came up as c11t0d0 and c11t4d0. From reading elsewhere I had expected the two boot disks on the thumper to be c6t0d0 and c6t4d0. 4/. Anyway, I completed install and it rebooted fine. I then removed the LCD display, keyboard, mouse and external DVD drives (which I had tempoarily added) and rebooted and the disks were still on c11. There is talk in manual about adding external USB drives changing control numbering, but I was still a bit surprised. 5/. I can talk just to the service processor (ILOM) ok over its serial interface, however, if I use start /SP/console to try to get an on-line console, I see various messages as the thumper boots, but I don't get offered a "console login" once it has booted. Normally, with Solaris on SPARC boxes I do at that stage get a console login. Do I have to set some options in OpenSolaris somwhere? Anyway, I am now about to mirror the root disks and create zpools etc but at least I am going o.k. If anyone has any comments on my points above (and in particular, if anyone has managed to auto install a thumper) I would love to hear as I still have the second thumper yet to start... Thanks, Dave Price -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
