Re: debian-9.0-sparc64-NETINST-1.iso (rel 2018-02-16T23:09:00) Networking issues on Blade 150
Hello Frank,
Thanks for looking into this.
* What installation mode did you use?
The "normal mode", similar to yours.
* I always assumed that MAC addresses from the 08:00:20 block were
only used with "older" Sun machines.
They might, my blade has 8:0:20:c8:f4:a7, but historically had
00:03:ba:dc:0c:57; I had to change the nvram chip when its battery ran
out, it's quite possible that the new one changed my blade's mac
address, I would be surprised if this caused the issue, but it's not
impossible.
* Is there a chance that your local DHCP setup is not working properly?
I highly doubt it, as it works well for another operating system on
this blade, although after the dhcp client failure from the installer,
I chose the option to setup the ip address manually, but it was unable
to succeed doing so.
Do you think the nvram swap caused this issue, and should I reprogram
the chip to its former mac address?
Jerome
On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 11:07 AM, Frank Scheiner <frank.scheiner@web.de> wrote:
> Hi Jerome,
>
> On 02/21/2018 04:00 AM, Jerome Ibanes wrote:
>>
>> The same behavior is observed using
>> https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/debian-9.0-sparc64-NETINST-1.iso
>> Timestamped "2018-02-07 20:35" (md5=be24e824141daf81e8ca3640a1f59f9a)
>> Hope this helps.
>
>
> I fetched my Blade 100 (should be close enough to a Blade 150) from storage
> and gave both the latest sparc64 ISO image ([1], dated 2018-02-16 23:09) at
> Adrian's space and the official one ([2], dated 2018-02-07 20:35) a try
> today. In contrast to what you experienced, I didn't experience any issues
> with the network configuration done by the installer so far.
>
> [1]:
> https://people.debian.org/~glaubitz/debian-cd/debian-9.0-sparc64-NETINST-1.iso
>
> [2]:
> https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/debian-9.0-sparc64-NETINST-1.iso
>
> Installation was done in normal mode for both images. I stopped the
> installation with the official one after network configuration succeeded.
>
> What installation mode did you use?
>
> We have the same OBP version and I assume apart from the CPU most of our
> hardware should be identical. A difference is that your Blade 150 seems to
> use a MAC address from the 08:00:20 block, whereas mine uses a MAC address
> from the 00:03:ba block. I always assumed that MAC addresses from the
> 08:00:20 block were only used with "older" Sun machines. But maybe the Blade
> 100 and 150 were available with both. Shouldn't make a difference, but was
> unexpected.
>
> Is there a chance that your local DHCP setup is not working properly?
>
> Or maybe I misunderstood you at this point:
>
> Did you expect an automatic configuration with DHCP from the installer or
> were you manually configuring IP addresses in the installer dialogues and it
> couldn't or didn't configure your network interface properly?
>
> I always use DHCP so never tested if the manual network configuration done
> via the installer works.
>
> Cheers,
> Frank
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