Tried and failed to netboot the Sun Netra X1
I am not sure what magic is needed. I know that this little box can
netboot Solaris 10 just fine and I have that working. I tried to drop in
the Debian netinst ISO file and the machine did try to fetch it. However
it is way too large and the firmware has no ability to process a 300MB
file that way.
I tried to dd the iso image to a secondary disk drive and then boot it.
That failed strangely :
# dd if=deb.iso of=/dev/rdsk/c0t2d0s0
661128+0 records in
661128+0 records out
#
# uadmin 2 0
syncing file systems... done
Program terminated
ok devalias
disk /pci@1f,0/ide@d/disk@0,0
rtc /pci@1f,0/isa@7/rtc@0,70
usb /pci@1f,0/usb@a
flash /pci@1f,0/isa@7/flashprom@1f,0
lom /pci@1f,0/isa@7/SUNW,lomh@0,8010
i2c-nvram /pci@1f,0/pmu@3/i2c@0,0/i2c-nvram@0,aa
net1 /pci@1f,0/ethernet@5
dload1 /pci@1f,0/ethernet@5:,
dload /pci@1f,0/ethernet@c:,
net0 /pci@1f,0/ethernet@c
net /pci@1f,0/ethernet@c
cdrom /pci@1f,0/ide@d/cdrom@3,0:f
disk3 /pci@1f,0/ide@d/disk@3,0
disk2 /pci@1f,0/ide@d/disk@2,0
disk1 /pci@1f,0/ide@d/disk@1,0
disk0 /pci@1f,0/ide@d/disk@0,0
ide /pci@1f,0/ide@d
floppy /pci@1f,0/isa@7/dma/floppy
ttyb /pci@1f,0/isa@7/serial@0,2e8
ttya /pci@1f,0/isa@7/serial@0,3f8
ok boot /pci@1f,0/ide@d/disk@2,0
Res
LOM event: +2h52m42s host reset
etting ...
Processor Speed = [Speed Jumper = 5] 500 MHz
Baud rate is 9600
8 Data bits, 1 stop bits, no parity (configured from lom)
Firmware CORE Sun Microsystems, Inc.
@(#) core 1.0.18 2002/05/23 18:22
Software Power ON
Verifying NVRAM...Done
Bootmode is 0
MCR0 = 36a0bc04
MCR1 = c0804000
MCR2 = ff0bbbb
MCR3 = 3ff
Ecache Size = 256 KB
Clearing E$ Tags Done
Clearing I/D TLBs Done
Probing memory
Done
MEMBASE=0x60000000
MEMSIZE=0x10000000
Clearing memory...Done
Turning ON MMUs Done
Copy ROM to RAM (154720 bytes) Done
Orig PC=0x1fff0007edc New PC=0xf0f07f34
Processor Speed=500MHz
Looking for Dropin FVM ... found
Decompressing Client Done
Transferring control to Client...
Reset Control: BXIR:0 BPOR:0 SXIR:0 SPOR:1 POR:0
Probing upa at 1f,0 pci
Probing upa at 0,0 SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIe (256 Kb)
Loading Support Packages: kbd-translator
Loading onboard drivers:
Probing /pci@1f,0 Device 7 isa dma rtc power SUNW,lomh serial serial
flashprom
Probing /pci@1f,0 Device 3 pmu i2c temperature dimm dimm dimm dimm
i2c-nvram idprom motherboard-fru ppm beep fan-control
lomp
Probing Memory Bank #0 256 Megabytes
Probing Memory Bank #1 256 Megabytes
Probing Memory Bank #2 256 Megabytes
Probing Memory Bank #3 256 Megabytes
ChassisSerialNumber 51592229
Probing /pci@1f,0 Device 7
Probing /pci@1f,0 Device 3
Probing /pci@1f,0 Device c ethernet
Probing /pci@1f,0 Device 5 ethernet
Probing /pci@1f,0 Device a usb
Probing /pci@1f,0 Device d ide disk cdrom
todm5819 Sun Netra X1 (UltraSPARC-IIe 500MHz), No Keyboard
OpenBoot 4.0, 1024 MB memory installed, Serial #51592229.
Ethernet address 0:3:ba:13:3c:25, Host ID: 83133c25.
Environment monitoring: disabled
Executing last command: boot /pci@1f,0/ide@d/disk@2,0
Boot device: /pci@1f,0/ide@d/disk@2,0 File and args:
Evaluating: boot /pci@1f,0/ide@d/disk@2,0
Can't open boot device
ok boot /pci@1f,0/ide@d/disk@2,0:a
Boot device: /pci@1f,0/ide@d/disk@2,0:a File and args:
Can't open boot device
ok
So now I am pondering how to get a bootable *something*.
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Dennis Clarke
RISC-V/SPARC/PPC/ARM/CISC
UNIX and Linux spoken
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