We haven't gotten around to playing with OpenSolaris on SPARC yet, but I would do a find through the ISO for an inetboot file, then copy that to /tftpboot. Hopefully the rest of it will just fall into place, or you can figure out based on working configurations for x86.
William > -----Original Message----- > From: Nam Le [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 12:54 PM > To: William Yang > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [sysadmin-discuss] Automated Installer Setup > > William, > > Yes you are right, it's kind of odd why would a sparc system be using > pxegrub. I checked the /tftpboot dir for inetboot but it's not there. > Has your team successfully setup an AI environment for sparc before? And > which script or ISO did you use? > > Nam > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: William Yang <[email protected]> > Date: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 9:42 am > Subject: Re: [sysadmin-discuss] Automated Installer Setup > To: Nam Le <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > > > > Sounds like an error in the installadm script that it's only handling > > x86. SPARC doesn't use pxegrub since it doesn't use grub (and most > > certainly not one that is "I86PC"); look for an inetboot file in > > /tftpboot for OpenSolaris. > > > > -- > > William Yang > > [email protected] > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Nam Le" <[email protected]> > > To: [email protected] > > Sent: Monday, February 9, 2009 6:43:53 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern > > > > Subject: [sysadmin-discuss] Automated Installer Setup > > > > Hi Everyone, > > > > I'm trying to setup an AI server for OpenSolaris Sparc Clients by > > following the following instructions: > > > > > http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/caiman/auto_install/AI_install_serve > r_setup.html#ai_sparc_setup > > > > > > I fumbled on step 6 where I'm asked to run # installadm create-service > > > > > > I getting the following error: > > > > copying boot file to /tftpboot/pxegrub.I86PC.OpenSolaris-1 > > cp: cannot stat `/var/tmp/osol-0906-106a-ai-sparc/boot/grub/pxegrub': > > No such file or directory > > chmod: cannot access `/tftpboot/pxegrub.I86PC.OpenSolaris-1': No such > > file or directory > > > > Going back to check the target directory > > /var/tmp/osol-0906-106a-ai-sparc and yes indeed the grub directory is > > missing. I'm suspecting that it could be a bad iso file but I tried > > two different downloads on two different systems with two different > > platform and the same result. The iso image file size is identical on > > both. > > > > I also try to run the same same setup for the x86 PC image, and the > > command ran without errors. > > > > Does anyone have this problem or know anyone had successfully setup an > > AI install server for sparc clients? Please advise. > > > > Thanks! > > -- > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > > _______________________________________________ > > sysadmin-discuss mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/sysadmin-discuss _______________________________________________ sysadmin-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/sysadmin-discuss
