Given that it works on a sun4u then I am guessing that a Sunblade 2000 should be perfect for this sort of thing. I know that I have one of those in the warehouse. However I think they need FCAL disks. Anyways I will give that a look see and also I hope serial console works out of the box.
Yes, I should try it on some sun4u too. And probably bare hardware sun4v - all my sparcs run Linux natively. About Blade 1x00/2x00 and E280R: they use qla2xxx for root disks and last I tried this was broken in the kernel. It may be better now but older Symbios and newer MPT etc controllers would probably be a safer try if you have them available. -- Meelis Roos