This seems to be related to an old bug in the bootparamd package that’s never been fixed, probably because this thing went out of fashion years ago. After fiddling with wireshark for a while I realized that rpc.bootparamd wasn’t answering the client’s broadcast request at all! Yuck. OpenBoot hangs because of… no obvious reason. Netra T1 200 (UltraSPARC-IIe 500MHz), No Keyboard
This is an excerpt from one of several (failed) boot attempts with different parameters, verbose options and stuff: I decided to follow this nice article, as it described the procedure clearly: sadly, while I could reach tftpboot and download the kernel, it would then refuse to mount the root filesystem from NFS. I swear I did not mean to turn this blog into a big netbooting series but it’s so much fun, I want to try PXE (maybe even PXE on weird buggy BIOSes (InsydeH2O (lisp-p?))) sometimes… Overconfidence I’ve used sunboot to install Solaris 6 (SunOS 5.6) on my SPARCStation 5 in the past, but this time I decided that it would be nice to learn how to do this manually (also, I have no idea if sunboot does support Sol10).Īrmed with my newfound netbooting knowledge, I decided that my laptop would be more than enough to netboot the T1 and started fiddling around with it. On the other hand, sunboot is a novel approach that uses Vagrant and VirtualBox to set up an automated Debian VM that will do the heavy lifting for you. The JumpStart process is a custom tftpboot+NFS+ bootparamd+whatever streamlined solution offered by Sun for decades that can be easily set up on any Solaris machine, and an equivalent procedure should be easy to cobble up using a Linux server since all of the necessary servers are there (more on this later, though). Solaris JumpStart equivalent from a Linux server.Solaris JumpStart from a Solaris server.
In 2021, a SPARC machine can be netbooted in different ways, namely: Since I’m a cheapskate and I didn’t want to buy a blank DVD to install Solaris (and partly because the T1 does not have a DVD drive), I decided that netbooting would be the sanest option. Since acquiring a Sun UltraSCSI disk array, I’ve decided to revive an old Netra T1 ( ) I had lying around to make an Unix media box. Installing Solaris 10 on a Sun Netra T1 from the network
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