I'm trying to Jumpstart an X4100-M2 with Solaris 10 6/06.

(Unfortunately I am required to use this specific revision,
and to not patch it. If I use a more recent release we get
into a lot of trouble.)

The machine is in a remote datacentre so I used rsync to copy
our install image to a local jumpstart server we've been using
for 08/07 installs.

System boots from the network, seems to find the JS config stuff
without any great trouble, but barfs when trying to mount the
install image.

Here's the console output:

SunOS Release 5.10 Version Generic_118855-14 32-bit
Copyright 1983-2005 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
Use is subject to license terms.
NOTICE: nge0: link down
NOTICE: nge0: link 1000Mbps Full-Duplex up
WARNING: BIOS microcode patch for AMD Athlon(tm) 64/Opteron(tm) processor
erratum 131 was not detected; updating your system's BIOS to a version
containing this microcode patch is HIGHLY recommended or erroneous system
operation may occur.

Configuring devices.
^[[ACustom JumpStart
NOTICE: nge1: link down
NOTICE: nge1: link 1000Mbps Full-Duplex up
Beginning system identification...
Searching for configuration file(s)...
Using sysid configuration file /sysidcfg
Search complete.
Discovering additional network configuration...
Completing system identification...
Starting remote procedure call (RPC) services: done.
System identification complete.
Starting Solaris installation program...
Searching for JumpStart directory...
sing rules.ok from 10.137.13.200:/jumpstart.
Checking rules.ok file...
Using profile: Profiles/S10.x86
Using finish script: Drivers/run_x86.driver
/sbin/dhcpinfo: primary interface requested but no primary interface is set
Executing JumpStart preinstall phase...
Searching for SolStart directory...
Checking rules.ok file...
Using begin script: install_begin
Using finish script: patch_finish
/sbin/dhcpinfo: primary interface requested but no primary interface is set
Executing SolStart preinstall phase...
Executing begin script "install_begin"...
Begin script install_begin execution completed.

ERROR: Could not load the media (/cdrom)
Solaris installation program exited.

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I can mount the install image myself from the prompt so I know
there isn't a problem doing that. This is cut'n'paste from
the menu.lst entry it's booting from so it isn't a typo tripping
it up.

Interactive install fails when it tries to mount the install image,
too.

This is making me think there's something gone wrong when using
rsync to make the local install image. I just used "-r", no other
options, and had expected that if there was going to be a problem it
would've been with the boot stuff, not the installer.

Any suggestions? I'm copying a GNU tarball over at the moment
but that is going to take a fair while (lousy wet piece of string...)
so I've plenty of time to try other things first.

I'd just rebuild the install image from media if I had any, but
Sun really don't make it easy to get hold of older releases. If
anyone has a 6/06 x86 ISO lying around they'd be willing to share
then that'd be great too.

Matt

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* Matt McLeod | mail: matt@boggle.org | blog: http://abortrephrase.com/ *

A quick addition: I've just noticed that it has in
fact mounted the install image as /cdrom, so that at
least is clearly not the problem.

Preasumably there's some reason the installer doesn't
like the media, but I have no idea why.

Matt

In <fgm2sb$m4r$1@xen1.xcski.com>, Matt McLeod wrote:
> I'm trying to Jumpstart an X4100-M2 with Solaris 10 6/06.
>
> (Unfortunately I am required to use this specific revision,
> and to not patch it. If I use a more recent release we get
> into a lot of trouble.)
>
> The machine is in a remote datacentre so I used rsync to copy
> our install image to a local jumpstart server we've been using
> for 08/07 installs.
>
> System boots from the network, seems to find the JS config stuff
> without any great trouble, but barfs when trying to mount the
> install image.
>
> Here's the console output:
>
> SunOS Release 5.10 Version Generic_118855-14 32-bit
> Copyright 1983-2005 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
> Use is subject to license terms.
> NOTICE: nge0: link down
> NOTICE: nge0: link 1000Mbps Full-Duplex up
> WARNING: BIOS microcode patch for AMD Athlon(tm) 64/Opteron(tm) processor
> erratum 131 was not detected; updating your system's BIOS to a version
> containing this microcode patch is HIGHLY recommended or erroneous system
> operation may occur.
>
> Configuring devices.
> ^[[ACustom JumpStart
> NOTICE: nge1: link down
> NOTICE: nge1: link 1000Mbps Full-Duplex up
> Beginning system identification...
> Searching for configuration file(s)...
> Using sysid configuration file /sysidcfg
> Search complete.
> Discovering additional network configuration...
> Completing system identification...
> Starting remote procedure call (RPC) services: done.
> System identification complete.
> Starting Solaris installation program...
> Searching for JumpStart directory...
> sing rules.ok from 10.137.13.200:/jumpstart.
> Checking rules.ok file...
> Using profile: Profiles/S10.x86
> Using finish script: Drivers/run_x86.driver
> /sbin/dhcpinfo: primary interface requested but no primary interface is set
> Executing JumpStart preinstall phase...
> Searching for SolStart directory...
> Checking rules.ok file...
> Using begin script: install_begin
> Using finish script: patch_finish
> /sbin/dhcpinfo: primary interface requested but no primary interface is set
> Executing SolStart preinstall phase...
> Executing begin script "install_begin"...
> Begin script install_begin execution completed.
>
> ERROR: Could not load the media (/cdrom)
> Solaris installation program exited.
>
> ----
>
> I can mount the install image myself from the prompt so I know
> there isn't a problem doing that. This is cut'n'paste from
> the menu.lst entry it's booting from so it isn't a typo tripping
> it up.
>
> Interactive install fails when it tries to mount the install image,
> too.
>
> This is making me think there's something gone wrong when using
> rsync to make the local install image. I just used "-r", no other
> options, and had expected that if there was going to be a problem it
> would've been with the boot stuff, not the installer.
>
> Any suggestions? I'm copying a GNU tarball over at the moment
> but that is going to take a fair while (lousy wet piece of string...)
> so I've plenty of time to try other things first.
>
> I'd just rebuild the install image from media if I had any, but
> Sun really don't make it easy to get hold of older releases. If
> anyone has a 6/06 x86 ISO lying around they'd be willing to share
> then that'd be great too.
>
> Matt
>


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* Matt McLeod | mail: matt@boggle.org | blog: http://abortrephrase.com/ *

In <fgm4si$m4r$3@xen1.xcski.com>, Matt McLeod wrote:
> Preasumably there's some reason the installer doesn't
> like the media, but I have no idea why.

Still no idea what it hated, but unpacking the gtar archive
instead of using the rsync copy is now working properly. Gah.

I was hoping to be able to use rsync to automatically dist our
install trees...

Matt

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* Matt McLeod | mail: matt@boggle.org | blog: http://abortrephrase.com/ *

In article <fgm4si$m4r$3@xen1.xcski.com>,
Matt McLeod <matt@boggle.org> writes:
> A quick addition: I've just noticed that it has in
> fact mounted the install image as /cdrom, so that at
> least is clearly not the problem.
>
> Preasumably there's some reason the installer doesn't
> like the media, but I have no idea why.

Does it include any of the hidden files?
Installer uses these early on to check it has the right media.

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Andrew Gabriel
[email address is not usable -- followup in the newsgroup]

In <472ee81b$0$512$5a6aecb4@news.aaisp.net.uk>, Andrew Gabriel wrote:
> Does it include any of the hidden files?
> Installer uses these early on to check it has the right media.

It had stuff like .cdtoc there.

I'm guessing it may not have preserved some links or something
else like that. If I have time later I'll compare the two trees
and figure out what's going wrong.

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* Matt McLeod | mail: matt@boggle.org | blog: http://abortrephrase.com/ *