From: McKinnon, Daryl L SCAN (Daryl.McKinnon@shell.com)
Date: Thu Jan 08 2004 - 09:59:48 EST
My thanks to the many people who replied to my original post yesterday. Most
agreed that it was best to get Solaris 9 12/03 rather than trying to patch or
modify the 08/03 version on my Jumpstart server (which I originally thought
would be quicker). I decided to download the binaries from Sun, and rather
than going to the trouble of burning CD's, I used lofiadm to mount the .iso
files and installed on my Jumpstart server. There is a good SunSolve article
worth reading at http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doc=fsrdb/50566
which details the steps.
Special thanks to Rich Teer for suggesting lofiadm and Tim Evans for other
additional info.
Daryl McKinnon
-----Original Message-----
From: McKinnon, Daryl L SCAN
Sent: January 7, 2004 11:32 AM
To: sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org
Subject: Solaris 9 on v440
Can anyone help me with getting a V440 to Jumpstart Solaris 9? I realize
that
Solaris 9 12/03 is needed for V440 support; I've got 08/03 on my Jumpstart
server and thought it should be simple enough to patch rather than order a
new
media kit (I've done this type of thing before with success back on Solaris
2.6).
I grabbed the newest 9_Recommended cluster patch (as of Jan 6, 2004) and
performed the following steps on my Jumpstart server:
# cd <patchdir>/9_Recommended
# for patch in `cat patch_order`
do
patchadd -C <exportdir>/Solaris_9/Tools/Boot $patch
done
This seems to patch the bootable image and the V440 does boot, but when it
gets to the point of formatting its disk it fails because none of the
internal
disks are seen:
ERROR: No disks found
- Check to make sure disks are cabled and powered up
When I do a format from the net-booted single user mode, I see that there are
indeed no disks. Since I have a bootable version of Solaris 8 on the V440
(on
one of the internal disks), I know the hardware is ok.
Is there some patch that I'm missing, or was some device related file on the
miniroot missed?
Daryl McKinnon
Shell Canada Limited
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