On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 2:16 PM, Dave McGuire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 14, 2008, at 9:59 AM, Francois Dion wrote: >> My sunray server is a v480. Runs great. But it is sparc, and I need to >> build a ton of stuff for solaris sparc and x86. It does have a sunpci >> 3 card (AMD mobile) on which I run windows. It is only used at most 2 >> hours of the day for that role. So I want to run solaris x86 the rest >> of the time. I know how to do that with dos, red hat, windows >> (multiple boot through multiple configs and disk images). >> >> The problem is that /opt/SUNWspci3/bin/sunpci doesn't offer a choice >> for solaris x86. However people have done it. I am just not sure how >> they've done it. I tried creating an image with no OS, and figuring >> out how to boot from the cdrom but I cant find any option for that >> (either command line or .ini config file). >> >> Total silence from sunhelp, sun-managers and other usual suspects, but >> I figured there has to be at least 1 user on this list that is running >> sunpci (used to be pretty common in sunray environments) and knows how >> to force boot from the cdrom, or even better has to procedure to set >> up solaris x86 on it. > > I don't know how to do it, but if you find out, I'd like to know as well.
It is not going to be easy. People that had said they had done it are now struck with amnesia... mike reily who used to work for sun thinks you cant do it... But if I can at least build a boot image with grub, then I can boot at least an external hard disk on the USB (2.0) port and as far as the booting the cdrom, I figured I can probably boot the install (jumpstart) from the network, or else just do an install on the external drive from another machine with a cdrom. The creating an image with grub is the part that's going to be really dificult. Not impossible though. _______________________________________________ SunRay-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
