<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Hi Mike,<div><br></div><div>thank you for your suggestion.</div><div>I was indeed just about to pick up a cdrom drive.</div><div>Unfortunately the machine is too old to boot from usb.</div><div><br></div><div>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,</div><div>the results that this AI found were inconclusive, but something seemed to be off.</div><div><br></div><div>Then I came across this nifty bug report:</div><div><div style="display: block;"><a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/netkit-bootparamd/+bug/1610184">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/netkit-bootparamd/+bug/1610184</a></div></div><div style="display: block;"><br></div><div style="display: block;">and well… my boot server is debian… so I have to assume that bootparamd is broken… since 7 years now.</div><div style="display: block;"><br></div><div style="display: block;">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)</div><div style="display: block;">And would you believe it, it just worked instantly.</div><div style="display: block;"><br></div><div style="display: block;">But it wasn’t all for nothing. I think I’m an expert in booting sun sparc machines off the network now :D</div><div style="display: block;"><br></div><div style="display: block;">Have a good day everone.</div><div style="display: block;"><br></div><div style="display: block;"><br></div><div style="display: block;">Johannes (<a href="http://nerdsh.org">nerdsh.org</a>)</div><div></div></body></html>