S10u4 x86 jumpstart - Solaris
This is a discussion on S10u4 x86 jumpstart - Solaris ; I'm attempting to setup a jumpstart system for Solaris 10u4 on x86,
and I've run into a pretty obnoxious problem: pxegrub spontaniously
reboots the system as it's loading the OS.
The system's motherboard is a 'TYAN Thunder K8S/K8SD Pro S2882', ...
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S10u4 x86 jumpstart
I'm attempting to setup a jumpstart system for Solaris 10u4 on x86,
and I've run into a pretty obnoxious problem: pxegrub spontaniously
reboots the system as it's loading the OS.
The system's motherboard is a 'TYAN Thunder K8S/K8SD Pro S2882', which
I believe is on the HCL, though as 'reported to work'. I've got a machine
at home with the same board running S10u4 installed via DVD, so I know it
will run Solaris if only I can get pxegrub to stop exploding on me.
I've attempted to jumpstart a couple different machines to rule out a bad
system, and I've tried installing over different NICs (the board has three
onboard interfaces, 1 iprb, 2 bge) with the same result.
Has anyone run into a similar problem?
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Re: S10u4 x86 jumpstart
On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:48:33 -0500, I said something similar to:
> I'm attempting to setup a jumpstart system for Solaris 10u4 on x86,
> and I've run into a pretty obnoxious problem: pxegrub spontaniously
> reboots the system as it's loading the OS.
[snip]
> 172.20.0.61 -> 172.20.0.50 TFTP Read "boot/grub/menu.lst" (octet)
> 172.20.0.50 -> 172.20.0.61 TFTP Data block 1 (496 bytes) (last block)
> 172.20.0.61 -> 172.20.0.50 TFTP Ack block 1
> 172.20.0.61 -> 172.20.0.50 TFTP Read "/boot/multiboot" (octet)
> 172.20.0.50 -> 172.20.0.61 TFTP Data block 1 (512 bytes)
> 172.20.0.61 -> 172.20.0.50 TFTP Error: not defined
> 172.20.0.61 -> 172.20.0.50 TFTP Read "/boot/multiboot" (octet)
> 172.20.0.50 -> 172.20.0.61 TFTP Data block 1 (512 bytes)
> 172.20.0.61 -> 172.20.0.50 TFTP Ack block 1
> 172.20.0.50 -> 172.20.0.61 TFTP Data block 2 (512 bytes)
> 172.20.0.61 -> 172.20.0.50 TFTP Read "/boot/multiboot" (octet)
In case someone else runs into this, it seems that pxegrub doesn't
play nice with the in.tftpd in Solaris 8 (at least not with the
version from 108965-06). Pointing the DHCP next-server option at
a box running a more up to date version of tftp solved the problem.
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Re: S10u4 x86 jumpstart
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 21:35:00 -0500, Mike Delaney wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:48:33 -0500, I said something similar to:
>> I'm attempting to setup a jumpstart system for Solaris 10u4 on x86,
>> and I've run into a pretty obnoxious problem: pxegrub spontaniously
>> reboots the system as it's loading the OS.
> [snip]
>> 172.20.0.61 -> 172.20.0.50 TFTP Read "boot/grub/menu.lst" (octet)
>> 172.20.0.50 -> 172.20.0.61 TFTP Data block 1 (496 bytes) (last block)
>> 172.20.0.61 -> 172.20.0.50 TFTP Ack block 1
>> 172.20.0.61 -> 172.20.0.50 TFTP Read "/boot/multiboot" (octet)
>> 172.20.0.50 -> 172.20.0.61 TFTP Data block 1 (512 bytes)
>> 172.20.0.61 -> 172.20.0.50 TFTP Error: not defined
>> 172.20.0.61 -> 172.20.0.50 TFTP Read "/boot/multiboot" (octet)
>> 172.20.0.50 -> 172.20.0.61 TFTP Data block 1 (512 bytes)
>> 172.20.0.61 -> 172.20.0.50 TFTP Ack block 1
>> 172.20.0.50 -> 172.20.0.61 TFTP Data block 2 (512 bytes)
>> 172.20.0.61 -> 172.20.0.50 TFTP Read "/boot/multiboot" (octet)
>
> In case someone else runs into this, it seems that pxegrub doesn't
> play nice with the in.tftpd in Solaris 8 (at least not with the
Indeed, just copy the version from an S9 box, it works fine. Or upgrade
your JumpStart to S9/S10
> version from 108965-06). Pointing the DHCP next-server option at a box
> running a more up to date version of tftp solved the problem.
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