[indiana-discuss] [osol-discuss] Opensolaris on Ultra 10

[mary ding]

Martin:

We are aware of the problem with trying to get AI to work on older sun4u 
boxes. When we did the sparc 2009.01.06 support, we are aware of 
problems with booting sun4u.  We also had s10 updates customers filing 
bugs against wanboot.

I filed the following bugs to track the issues that we found with 
nevada/s10 update wanboot install support.

6797441 - wanboot fails to configure network device when booted from media
6805094 - wanboot install from snv and s10u6/s10u7_04 fails after 
loading miniroot.

With the fix for 6797441, I can finally do wanboot install from media 
and disk on older platforms.

However, AI install for osol works differently and we still had issues 
on older platforms.  We had filed the following bug to track the 
additional issues on older sun4u platforms:

6820873 - Export wanboot arguments so that Automated installer can use them





Martin Bochnig wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 6:54 PM, Danil Smirnov <danil.smirnov at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Is anybody here who have successfully installed Opensolaris on Ultra 10?
>>
>> This article http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=99516&tstart=0
>> says that I need OBP level of 4.17 or greater for automated Installer. But it looks like
>> latest OBP version for Ultra 10 is 3.31... :-(
>>
>> I tried to boot from build 111 by `boot cdrom` command nut it says:
>> "Bad magic number in disk label
>> Can't open disk label package
>> Evaluating: boot cdrom
>> Can't open boot device"
>>
>> Could you please advice some other method to install Opensolaris? I have Solaris 10 installed on the workstation...
> 
> 
> 
> Hello, the AI iso is not meant to be bootable.
> Please subscribe to caiman discuss.
> Follow Sun's instructions (and run into the next bug on almost all pre
> 4.17.1 legacy sun4u platforms, which I found and for which I
> finalllllly found a fix after 2 weeks of insomnia:
> http://opensolaris.org/os/project/caiman/auto_install/Documentation/
> 
> 
> Be sure to read my recent posts to caiman-discuss (and PLEASE confirm
> that this bug exists, thank you) :
> 
> http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=101275&tstart=0
> 
> Yes, with my patches it now works on the Ultra 10.
> p.s. You won't need to mess around with bare metal when setting up the
> install and dhcp servers (best in same subnet as client and both
> servers on same machine, follow the "simple instructions" in the
> guide).
> However: No bare metal is needed for the server, I successfully use
> VirtualBox for this, with x86/x64 OpenSolaris 2009.06.111 (don't take
> 111a) as guest, and switch VirtualBox's Networking from NAT to
> Bridging.
> For convenience I can upload the hdd guest image for you.
> Otherwise take the iso's gently provided by Ben Rockwood and Al Hopper
> from genunix.org.
> 
> If you run into whatever SPARC-specific trouble, always feel free to
> ping the me via the lists.
> 
> Long live sun4u (and me).
> 
> 
> %martin
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