SUMMARY: Sol 10 x86 / Dell 2850

From: Andrew Hall (halla3_at_corp.earthlink.net)
Date: 08/29/05

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    Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 10:04:18 -0400
    
    

    Greetings,

    I was able to resolve the portmapper errors by patching another
    interface on my server. Whats happening is that I PXE boot off the
    onboard interface, but when solaris boots it finds the extra PCI nic
    first, so its trying to jumpstart over the PCI nic, not the onboard nic
    I PXE booted from.

    As for the hanging Configuring Devices, the short answer is I have to
    disable ACPI during the jumpstart. This can be accomplished three
    ways.

    You can either add 'setprop acpi-user-options 0x4' in solaris/bootenv.rc
    if you use an install floppy, create a /tftpboot/01<mac addr>.bootenv.rc
    in the jumpstart server, or at the boot selection screen hit F4 for Boot
    Tasks, View/Edit, F4 for create and create a new entry called
    'acpi-user-options' w/ a value of '0x4'.

    As to why the nics are acting such, I will open a new thread.

    Thanks,

    Andrew

    On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 12:43, Andrew Hall wrote:
    > Greetings,
    >
    > I am having a difficult time installing solaris 10 x86 on a brand new
    > Dell 2850. If I PXE boot it gets the sysidcfg info then gives me a
    > portmap error:
    >
    > Warning: pmap_kgetport: portmapper not responding; still trying
    >
    > I use this same jumpstart server to install sol 8,9,10 sparc w/ no
    > problems.
    >
    > If I boot of cd, it hangs at "Configuring Devices". It just sits there
    > and spins. It never gets past this. I let it sit there for almost an
    > hour.
    >
    > Any ideas?
    >
    > Thanks,
    >
    > Drew
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