2008/11/14 Francois Dion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 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. > > Thanks, > Francois > _______________________________________________ > SunRay-Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users >
While I can't answer your question directly, I have once used sunpci2 and did some pretty nasty stuff to it :-) What I did once for example is bolt a lot of stuff from a boot CD-ROM (Hirens in my case) onto the DOS install 'image dir' of SunPCI. That actually wasn't that difficult (basically the image directory contains a few small boot image files and a lot of general files, so all you have to do is copy your stuff next to it and make sure it actually runs on the provided DOS), and using that method, you should be able to (I have been) to get it to boot from either a CDROM or even a network. Of course, in my case I had a pretty gnarly fallout with Windows, which is natively supported, so again, no guarantees, but this is the best method I managed in the SunPCI 2 days to get it to boot from something else than it's own image dirs or it's HD images. Good luck!
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