Re: Sun E10K control board booting.

From: Chris Newport (me_at_see-my-sig.invalid)
Date: 11/30/04 

Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 15:13:43 +0000

On Tuesday 30 November 2004 1:51 pm in comp.sys.sun.admin Paul Griffiths
wrote:

> Many thanks for the information. We have just managed to get the board
> booting now, it turned out to be a power supply fault! The boot sequence
> of the controller board is a simple RARP followed by tftp of a bootable
> image file (created when ssp_config is run.)

Good - the next job is to install a domain using the SSP as a jumpstart
server. You will first need to allocate system boards to each domain and
create eeprom.image.[domain] files using sys_id for each domain.

> If you check out the online Sun Documentation you will find that the
> serial ports on the controller board are listed as unused
>
(http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/Devices/System_Board/SYSBD_E10000_CtlBd.html)
> - so I guess when Sun provided training they had a number of serial
> terminals they wanted rid of.

Having read my notes ... the need for a serial connection between the SSP
and control board went away with version 3.0 of the SSP software or
possibly earlier. Very early systems could (needed ?) load the control
board via the serial connection. All rather vague and a long time ago.
This need not concern you. 

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