Answers: 1) load-base, auto-boot? works. What's real-mode? :) 2) telnet not yet but disk and tftp is okay (dhcp broken in 1.2, specify the ip etc. manually - devices are "eth" and "geth") 3) you need 1.3 to use usb mass storage devices Sven? These guys should have new firmwares.. -- Matt Sealey <matt at genesi-usa.com> Manager, Genesi, Developer Relations
_____ From: powerpc-discuss-bounces at opensolaris.org [mailto:powerpc-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Noah yan Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 3:13 PM To: Ken Mays Cc: powerpc-discuss at opensolaris.org Subject: Re: [powerpc-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Status update On 2/16/06, Ken Mays <maybird1776 at yahoo.com > wrote: Noah, I've uploaded grub2_cvs021606_kmays.tar.bz2 to http://www.blastwave.org/testing <http://www.blastwave.org/testing> which is the work I'll also use for this test along with Dennis' build listed in his article. Regarding grub2 and firmware bootstrap (also to Jeremy, Thanks for update PolarisBootstrap wiki), the boot conf call (notes http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=4992 <http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=4992&tstart=15> &tstart=15 ) summerize them. But we do need grub2 when we have a self-hosting polaris installed. Using SmartFirmware v1.2 [20050602111451] Welcome to SmartFirmware(tm) for bplan Pegasos2 version 1.2 (20050602111451) ok devalias Alias Device Path ----------------------------------------------------------- eth /pci at 80000000/ethernet at D geth /ethernet/port1 ide /pci@ 80000000/ide at C,1/disk at 0,0 hd /pci at 80000000/ide at C,1/disk at 0,0 ide0 /pci@ 80000000/ide at C,1/cdrom at 1,0 cd /pci at 80000000/ide at C,1/cdrom at 1,0 screen /bootconsole keyboard /pci at 80000000/isa at C/keyboard at i60 are those variable such as load-base, real-mode, auto-boot works in smartfirmware? they are ieee1275 standard. Can you setup smartfirmware as a telnet server (like " enet:telnet,<server-ip>" io) and telnet to it? If so, can you printout a list of env and dev list? Thanks ok printenv boot-device boot-device hd:0 (eth) ok boot cd boot.img ISO-9960 filesystem: System-ID: "SOLARIS" Volume-ID: "Solaris 5.11 ppc" ... no such file boot.img ok show-devs /pci at 800000000/usb5,1 (usb) /pci at 800000000/usb5,2 /pci at 800000000/usb at C,2 (usb) /pci at 800000000/usb at C,3 (usb) /pci at 800000000/ethernet at D (network) ok ls cpus PowerPC 74x7 --- >From here I usually can see all of the devices and there is the tftp package. On my power mac G4, I load the elf from ofw by a command like "load enet:<tftp-server-ip>,inetboot.elf" , I am sure this should work for smartfirmware. I begin to hate the powermac g4, it seems not allow me to change the load-base and auto-boot. We thought of booting Solaris from a USB stick instead of CD so we didn't have to worry about the CD burning (and we get to use 1GB USB sticks). usb boot is great, but I still prefer tftp boot. :) Noah I'll revisit this later today. ~K This message posted from opensolaris.org <http://opensolaris.org/> _______________________________________________ powerpc-discuss mailing list powerpc-discuss at opensolaris.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/powerpc-discuss/attachments/20060217/aeadb39d/attachment.html>
