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List:       opensolaris-help
Subject:    [osol-help] Re: [osol-code] Re: Problems after BFU-ing to 17.5
From:       opensolaris.src () gmail ! com (Dragan Cvetkovic)
Date:       2005-06-17 13:34:18
Message-ID: Pine.GSO.4.62.0506171627340.27976 () titan ! tor ! soliton ! com
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On Fri, 17 Jun 2005, Shudong Zhou wrote:

> > > > Tried booting via network, didn't work either (grub entry is
> > > > 
> > > > title Solaris netinstall
> > > > rarp
> > > > kernel /I86PC.Solaris_11-1/multiboot kernel/unix -B
> > > install_media=199.43.2.148:/export/home/jumpstart/se_nv16_i386
> > > > module /I86PC.Solaris_11-1/x86.miniroot
> > > > 
> > > > and the message something along the line of "you must load multiboot
> > > > kernel before loading modules"

[snip]
> 
> If multiboot is there, then rarp is failing. In some UNDI (ROM on the
> nic card) implementations, RARP packets are transmitted as ARP packets,
> and the rarp server reasonably drops them on the floor. I usually advise
> people to run:
> ifconfig --address=... --gateway=... --mask=... --server=...
> This allows you to go across subnet, avoid firmware bugs, etc. In general,
> avoid code path that's rarely exercised.


Finally, after several reboots and RTFM-s I got it working! I have changed 
the above mentioned GRUB entry into

title Solaris netinstall
ifconfig --address=XX.YY.ZZ.UU --server=XX.YY.ZZ.WW
root (nd)
kernel /I86PC.Solaris_11-1/multiboot kernel/unix -B \
install_media=XX.YY.ZZ.WW:/export/home/jumpstart/se_nv16_i386 module \
/I86PC.Solaris_11-1/x86.miniroot

(for suitable values of XX, YY, ZZ, UU and WW) and it worked. Yeah. So, it
seems that I need to set root to network card aka network drive
explictly. Thanks all.

Bye, Dragan
-- 
Dragan Cvetkovic,

To be or not to be is true. G. Boole    No it isn't.  L. E. J. Brouwer


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