Many thanks to Scott Howard who pinpointed the problem exactly: >It's not a comms problem. > >The 280R has FC-AL disks, which will end up being on c1, with the SCSI CD-ROM >on c0. > >There's a bug in the scripts which detect the disk size, and they will be >picking up the CD-ROM as the bootdisk, and this setting the bootdisk size to >0Mb. (It will still try and install it on the right disk, it's just when >it's reading rules.ok that it screw up) > >Quick fix - Change the rules file not to use bootdisk size, but instead >something like hostname. >Real fix - There's a patch on Sunsolve which you need to apply to the >miniroot which fixes this problem. I think this patch has been included >in Sol8 02/02, although I haven't confirmed that yet. > > Scott. >>On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 05:42:29PM -0500, Scott wrote: >> I'm trying to jumpstart a SunFire 280r, but am having odd behavior with >> the interfaces. Jumpstart fails w/ "Cannot find matching rule in >> rules.ok" which is a pretty good indication that there is a >> communication problem. When I bail out of the jumpstart install and do >> an ifconfig -a, I see this: >> >> eri0: flags=1000863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu >> 1500 index 1 >> inet 172.16.0.148 netmask ffff0000 broadcast 172.16.0.255 >> ether 0:3:ba:f:fc:ee >> lo0: flags=1000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 8232 index 2 >> inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ffff0000 >> fcip0: flags=1000862<BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu >> 1500 index 3 >> inet 0.0.0.0 netmask ffff0000 >> ether 0:e0:8b:0:0:0 >> >> It may be insignificant, but it seems odd to me that eri0 is first and >> lo0 is second. I've just never seen that before. Also, the netmask for >> lo0 is 255.255.0.0 instead of 255.0.0.0 >> >> The client does not seem to be communicating nfs traffic with the >> jumpstart server. I have confirmed the jumpstart server works correctly >> by jumpstarting several other machines. Any thoughts or suggestions >> would be appreciated. >> >> Scott _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Thu Mar 21 08:43:21 2002
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