Re: Sun E10K control board booting.

From: Chris Newport (me_at_see-my-sig.invalid)
Date: 11/29/04 

Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 16:34:43 +0000

On Monday 29 November 2004 2:00 pm in comp.sys.sun.admin Paul Griffiths
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We have just acquired a second hand Sun E10K and are in the process of
> getting it up and running. The system has one controller board and 2 cpu
> boards.
>
> We have setup a SparcStation 5 as the SSP (using SSP V3.5.) The SSP is
> connected to the E10K via its le0 port - I can see the controller board
> sending out a RARP packet - the SSP responds to this (i.e. I have added
> an entry into /etc/ethers) - however, all we see after this is packets
> being sent from the E10k about once every 10 seconds. These packets are
> 14 bytes long and appear (according to snoop -v) to contain all 0's.
>
> It's at this point we are getting stuck - I am assuming the controller
> board on the E10K does some form of diskless boot from the SSP, and
> would have thought after successful RARP would have attempted bootp/tftp
> (indeed there appears to be a boot image in /tftpboot deposited by the
> SSP package) - however, the controller board seems to be stuck in the
> loop of just sending these 14 byte packets out!
>
> Could anyone help point me in the right direction? I've trawled the Sun
> docs but there seems to be very little information about this stage of
> the E10K setup.

Where in .uk are you ?.
Sounds like you might need a few days of my (not too expensive)
consultancy time to get you started.
First thing to check - You need either a hub or a reverse RJ45 cable.
You also need a serial port connection. 

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