On Wed, 25 Jan 2006, Michael Laajanen wrote:

> Welcome to the world of PC's

The same thought occured to me...

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HI,

Rich Teer wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Jan 2006, Michael Laajanen wrote:
>
>
>>Welcome to the world of PC's
>
>
> The same thought occured to me...
>
I don't know whats wrong for you but PC is a mess, they change chipsets,
versions so frequently that it is a mess.

Linux plays nice in PC HW, it was like Solaris for a loong time ago, and
now it works fine but there is a price, have you ever looked at the the
drivers in Linux, gosh!

/michael

Hello fellow x4100/x4200 users,

Rich Teer <rich.teer@rite-group.com> writes:

> On Wed, 25 Jan 2006, tunla wrote:
>
> > I installed two X4200 Monday.
> > These were two off Opteron 280's with 8 GB ram and Four 73 Gb
> > disks
> > They came preinstalled with S10HW1 i assume, but neither was able to
> > boot solaris.
> > I Reinstalled from scratch with S10u1 via the GRASP card and
> > JavaRConsole.
> > This way I eventually got the boxed up and running.
>
> Good to hear; I to oam using the ILOM/JavaRConsole thing. Bit of a
> shame that I can't get the CDROM and ISO attachment features to work
> as advertised. That at least would save me the hassle of burning
> media.
>
> I'm gonna try booting from a S10U1 DVD later today, and if I still get
> no joy I'll be phoning Sun.

A few words of caution/experience here:

Our x4100, delivered at the very end of Decemeber, came with
S10 HW1 installed, but it took me a while to figure that out...

I fired up a webserver to the DHCP allocated IP address for the iLOM
processor. Played around with the GUI, from which I started the
JavaWebStart Remote console thingy. On powering-up it displayed the
BIOS screens fine but seemed to hang after it said it was booting
Solaris.

After alot of head-scratching and poking around I read the
Preinstalled Solaris 10 Guide:

http://www.sun.com/products-n-soluti...19-4153-11.pdf

Which talked about ssh-ing into iLOM and doing:

start /SP/console

Only when I did this did I see some parts of the boot process that I
was not seeing with the Java console. In particular, the DCA, the
blue-screen secondary boot loader, and what was causing the boot
process to hang in my case, the sysidconfig/sysidtool stuff about
selecting the initial language: "0 English" type stuff.


With S10 HW1 (as preinstalled) certain parts of the boot
process were preconfigured to talk to the serial port
(eeprom/DCA output-device type settings) and thus
did not appear on the graphical screen.

After burning the S10U1 DVD and doing the install,
GRUB by default talks to the graphical screen
device (and has the option of being configured
to talk to the serial device) and the S10U1 install
is much easier.

I kind of like the iLOM web-server GUI and the Java console, and the
ssh support is an advantage over ALOM.
But this business of certain parts of the boot process being visible
either on the graphical console or on the serial one, but not both, is
one of those infuriating PC-isms that tripped me up. Give me OpenBoot
and ALOM any day!

Cheers,

Nigel
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A curious mind wishes to politely enquire as to the outcome of booting
S10U1/x86 on the X4200.

Cheers,

-Dan

Dan Foster wrote:
> A curious mind wishes to politely enquire as to the outcome of booting
> S10U1/x86 on the X4200.
>
> Cheers,
>
> -Dan

As I said earlier in this thread , It Works .
I have installed two X4200 with S10u1 and JavaRconsole.
As I did not have DVD media but Homeburned CD media I had some
trouble
with the process where the installer asks for the next CD.
I solved that by fireing up a dtterm window and mounting each CD
manually and starting the installer on each CD manually.

Then the complete boot and run including DTLOGIN and CDE/JDS can
be
run via JavaRConsole.


//Lars

In article <1138455843.527854.81520@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups. com>, tunla <lars.tunkrans@bredband.net> wrote:
>
> Dan Foster wrote:
>> A curious mind wishes to politely enquire as to the outcome of booting
>> S10U1/x86 on the X4200.
>
> As I said earlier in this thread , It Works .

I know it does for you. I'm just curious if it has been conclusively
proven that Mr. Teer has hardware problems.

It would be quite odd if relatively recent Nevada builds didn't have
support for the X4200.

-Dan

On Fri, 27 Jan 2006, Dan Foster wrote:

> A curious mind wishes to politely enquire as to the outcome of booting
> S10U1/x86 on the X4200.

Sorry about that! Yes, S10 U1 booted just fine on my X4200. Apparently,
the builds of Nevada that I was trying have an issue with their mpt driver.
This is, so I hear, fixed in build 31: I intend to give that a try as soon
as I can.

--
Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member

President,
Rite Online Inc.

Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638
URL: http://www.rite-group.com/rich