Sun Ray 3 Plus (P9) loads in two phases and should automatically pickup the second part upon the initial reset after the first part. Can you tell me how you ran the initial utfwadm command after installing via utfwinstall?
Perhaps a long listing of /tftpboot and what the parms files look like. On Jul 11, 2012, at 2:45 PM, Sean Walmsley <[email protected]> wrote: > Does anyone know what the "extCoronaP9" firmware shipped with SRS 5.3.0 is > for? Should we be enabling it on our Sunray3+ units? > > We did enable this download for a single test unit and its firmware version > pop-up (via STOP-V) now shows "SunRayP9-E". What is the difference between > this and the "normal" CoronaP9 firmware? The firmware size is 756KB. > > I have looked through the 5.3.0 documentation and have not been able to find > any reference to "extCoronaP9" or "SunRayP9-E". I also searched on the Oracle > support site with the same negative result, although my past success with > this site has been patchy at best. > > Thanks for any insight you can provide. > > Sean Walmsley > > ------------------ > ADDITIONAL DETAILS > ------------------ > As per our normal install process, during the 5.3.0 install we configured > firmware (using utfwadm) in /tftpboot only for the Sunray hardware we have on > site, i.e. CoronaP8 through CoronaP10. We did notice the extCoronaP9 > firmware, but chose not to enable it initially as we weren't sure what it was > for. > > After the upgrade, all our Sunray 3 units went through a two-stage firmware > upgrade process which: > > - upgraded their firmware to 11.0_49_2012.03.27.10.35 > - upgraded their smartcard reader firmware > > So far so good... > > Following the upgrade, however, every time we restarted these units they > popped up the firmware download window stating that they were: > > Reading firmware file: extCoronaP9.<mac id> > > After about 20-30 seconds a failure message blinked up and disappeared too > quickly to read, and the units then allowed login as usual. > > Since this was annoying, we decided to test adding the extCoronaP9 firmware > as follows: > > /opt/SUNWut/sbin/utfwadm -A -a -V -G force -f > /opt/SUNWutdfw/lib/firmware/extCoronaP9 > > We then connected a single test unit and turned it on. Sure enough, the unit > downloaded the additional firmware and rebooted the Sunray. Following reboot, > the firmware version pop-up (via STOP-V) now shows "SunRay P9-E" rather than > "SunRayP9". > > We are running on Solaris 10 SPARC and have full Oracle support on both our > Sunray hardware and the Sunray server software. > _______________________________________________ > SunRay-Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users _______________________________________________ SunRay-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
