geom network driver times out on sparc 4.2?

[Jay-93]

Ok, much progress.
I got to the point where it boots the flash update and I believe I have to fix
the jumper now.

Here are some tricks.If you read the footnote of the instructions, you realize
that RARPD and DHCP are applesand apples. You must pick just one. And it isn't
up to you. It is how the Sun boots.
So, extreme measure:  Take both machines off the main network. No more dhcp,
temporarily.  Run one cable between them. No more wireless, temporarily.  edit
/etc/hostname.if (hostname.gem0 for me) on the rarpd/tftpd server to give it a
static address   I used 10.0.0.1 -- right from the start of "man hostname.if"
edit /etc/hosts as instructed, I usd 10.0.0.2.
I'm not sure how you "really" set up network booting. This can't be it.I know
more modern systems to have dhcp in the boot environment. That should help
completely.
This got me to the point of rarpd sending a reply and then the Sun waiting and
telling meto double check the tftpd server.
Now, I varied a few things flailing around, but I think the main one wasthat
the files in /tftpboot should be named in all caps.
I also killed and restarted inetd, not just -1 (sighup), but that's probably
not needed.
I also ran inetd -d and it reported starting tftpd and then shortly after
reaping it.If I ran tftpd under gdb, it exited with 1 after a short run.I was
considering building it from source and debugging, but I haven't built OpenBSD
yet.I THINK it was the CAPS in the file names, but not sure.
AHA the instructions to use a capital X. I mistyped that.
Now to open the machine and deal with the jumper...
 - Jay

[Jay-93]

Ok! It is done.

I think there might be a reasonable "bug" or "feature request" here to enable
the OpenBSD/sparc64 bootblk to be able to boot the flash updates, like if it
is "just" a matter of supporting ELF32 or something. But I don't know.

Solaris still won't install. It actually got worse, before the OBP update.
Solaris setup had brought up X, now it fails to.
The machine came with Solaris, but when it booted, and went graphical, the LCD
couldn't keep up.. Oh well.

 - Jay


From: jayk123@...: openbsd@...: venture37@...;
misc@...: RE: geom network driver times out on sparc 4.2?Date:
Sat, 17 May 2008 18:56:38 +0000


Ok, much progress.I got to the point where it boots the flash update and I
believe I have to fix the jumper now.

[Sevan / Venture37]

Boot the machine whilst holding the STOP & N key on your keyboard,that will
reset your obp to defaults, then hook up a null modem cable to the sun &
another box, run a terminal emulator on the other box, power cycle the sun &
hold STOP & D
this will cause the sun to do a full hardware diag.
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