From: Jolyon Brown (jolyonbrown@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Apr 12 2005 - 07:19:39 EDT
Hi everyone
We recently rescued a Netra t 1125 which had been
removed from our data centre and was heading for the
skip. It's now being used for testing and practicing
installs etc. Unfortunately I've been having problems
actually doing anything with it yet, and was hoping
someone on the list could point me in the right
direction. I will of course summarise! Hopefully I'm
not doing something *completely* stupid..
The netra doesn't have a CD or DVD drive so I decided
to jumpstart it with Solaris 9 using an x86 install
server (which is a bog standard Compaq desktop called
bart, running Solaris 9). I've got a little standalone
network which I'm using for this. I don't have a sparc
system available to do the installs from.
I did the following to setup the install server:
mkdir -p /export/home/s9dvdsparc
then from the Tools dir on the install media
./setup_install_server /export/home/s9dvdsparc
This seemed to work OK. I then shared out the
/export/home/s9dvdsparc directory using NFS, and nfsd
is running.
Deciding to call the netra 'tester' I ran the
following from
/export/home/s9dvdsparc/Solaris_9/Tools:
./add_install_client tester sun4u
which resulted in the following in /etc/bootparams (NB
- I amended bootparams to have the ip address and not
the hostname of bart as I have no name service on this
network (I've also tried leaving it as it was to no
effect)):
tester
root=192.168.2.4:/export/home/s9dvdsparc/Solaris_9/Tools/Boot
install=192.168.2.4:/export/home/s9dvdsparc
boottype=:in rootopts=:rsize=32768
I've also added the correct ethernet address for
tester in /etc/ethers:
8:0:20:c4:e3:48 tester
Now onto the netra's console and after sending break
to get to an OK prompt I do the following. It all
seems to be working OK (finds the x86 machine, there
is traffic, picks up right ip etc) until the 'Killed'
message appears and the netra gets stuck in a loop.
It's worth noting that I do NOT have the root password
for the netra:
screen not found.
Can't open input device.
Keyboard not present. Using ttya for input and
output.
Netra t 1120/1125 (2 X UltraSPARC-II 440MHz), No
Keyboard
OpenBoot 3.23, 1024 MB memory installed, Serial
#12903240.
Ethernet address 8:0:20:c4:e3:48, Host ID: 80c4e348.
{0} ok boot net -v
Boot device: /pci@1f,4000/network@1,1 File and args:
-v
Timeout waiting for ARP/RARP packet
24000 Using RARP/BOOTPARAMS...
Internet address is: 192.168.2.10
hostname: tester
Found 192.168.2.4 @ 0:50:8b:a1:2a:83
root server: 192.168.2.4 (192.168.2.4)
root directory:
/export/home/s9dvdsparc/Solaris_9/Tools/Boot
Size: 58571+145f2+0x24922 Bytes
SunOS Release 5.9 Version Generic_112233-03 64-bit
Copyright 1983-2002 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights
reserved.
Use is subject to license terms.
Ethernet address = 8:0:20:c4:e3:48
Using default device instance data
mem = 1048576K (0x40000000)
avail mem = 1021214720
root nexus = Netra t 1120/1125 (2 X UltraSPARC-II
440MHz)
pcipsy0 at root: UPA 0x1f 0x4000
pcipsy0 is /pci@1f,4000
pcipsy1 at root: UPA 0x1f 0x2000
pcipsy1 is /pci@1f,2000
SUNW,hme0 : PCI IO 2.0 (Rev Id = c1) Found
PCI-device: network@1,1, hme0
hme0 is /pci@1f,4000/network@1,1
Requesting Internet address for 8:0:20:c4:e3:48
SUNW,hme0 : Internal Transceiver Selected.
SUNW,hme0 : 100 Mbps Full-Duplex Link Up
Found my IP address: c0a8020a (192.168.2.10)
hostname: tester
whoami: no domain name
root on
192.168.2.4:/export/home/s9dvdsparc/Solaris_9/Tools/Boot
fstype nfsdyn
PCI-device: ebus@1, ebus0
ebus0 is /pci@1f,4000/ebus@1
su0 at ebus0: offset 14,3083f8
su0 is /pci@1f,4000/ebus@1/su@14,3083f8
su1 at ebus0: offset 14,3062f8
su1 is /pci@1f,4000/ebus@1/su@14,3062f8
se0 at ebus0: offset 14,400000
se0 is /pci@1f,4000/ebus@1/se@14,400000
cpu0: SUNW,UltraSPARC-II (upaid 0 impl 0x11 ver 0xa0
clock 440 MHz)
cpu2: SUNW,UltraSPARC-II (upaid 2 impl 0x11 ver 0xa0
clock 440 MHz)
Killed
/sbin/rcS: /etc/vfstab: cannot create
INIT: Cannot create /var/adm/utmpx
INIT: failed write of utmpx entry:" "
INIT: failed write of utmpx entry:" "
INIT: SINGLE USER MODE
INIT: execle of /etc/sulogin failed; errno = 2
ENTER RUN LEVEL (0-6, s or S) [2]:
Any ideas anyone? I just can't get past this point -
choosing any run level results in the following:
ENTER RUN LEVEL (0-6, s or S) [2]:s
INIT: SINGLE USER MODE
INIT: execle of /etc/sulogin failed; errno = 2
ENTER RUN LEVEL (0-6, s or S) [2]:6
INIT: Cannot access /var/adm/utmpx, remaining in
single user mode.
INIT: SINGLE USER MODE
INIT: execle of /etc/sulogin failed; errno = 2
ENTER RUN LEVEL (0-6, s or S) [2]:
Regards
Joe Brown
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