[geeks] Network-Booting Issues with a Sun Fire V120

[ADM Nerdsh]

Hi Mike,

thank you for your suggestion.
I was indeed just about to pick up a cdrom drive.
Unfortunately the machine is too old to boot from usb.

BUT, just when I was about to give up, after several straces of rpcbind, rpcbind.socket and bootparamd which I had analyzed by Microsoft Copilot because I have no clue how to interpret an strace,
the results that this AI found were inconclusive, but something seemed to be off.

Then I came across this nifty bug report:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/netkit-bootparamd/+bug/1610184

and well… my boot server is debian… so I have to assume that bootparamd is broken… since 7 years now.

So what I did is set up another VM on my proxmox server, but this time I just installed Solaris 10u8 x86 version on it, configured my rarp, tftp and bootparams (told it to boot of the nfs on my debian machine though)
And would you believe it, it just worked instantly.

But it wasn’t all for nothing. I think I’m an expert in booting sun sparc machines off the network now :D

Have a good day everone.


Johannes (nerdsh.org <http://nerdsh.org/>)
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