Re: A little more help for a new sparc user

On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 03:44:49PM -0800, Erin O'Meara wrote:
> Well I got the install up and running an have my netra X1 running openBSD.
> 
> In the install.sparc64 file in mentions applying the latest firmware patch
> for openbsd to run.  the firmware on the box is from 2001 and the latest is
> 2003.
> I have download the patch file from sun (111952-03) and the file is a shell
> script that contains an encoded file, which is a shell script with another
> enocode file.
> in the end I get the tar file that is double encoded and contains
> flashprom.64bit, flashprom.32bit and obp_image.
> 
> from reading the scripts the flashprom files are drivers for sun's OS and
> the other file is the firmware image.
> 
> any suggestions on how to flash the netra X1 firmware from openBSD?
> 
> I have played around with these steps and tried to boot the image file with
> no luck, should this work with the obp_image file?
> http://www.smtps.net/netboot_flash_obp.html
>
What I needed to do to update the prom on my Netra T1 105, was
boot the Solaris installer with a similar arrangement to openbsd,
and I was able to run the prom update from the Solaris installer
without installing Solaris. Getting all the nfs and bootparams
stuff seemed to be a big pain with Solaris like OpenBSD, but
slightly different. Here are my exports and bootparams files:
nick@gwynn:~$ cat /etc/exports 
# /etc/exports: the access control list for filesystems which may be exported
#		to NFS clients.  See exports(5).
/var/lib/tftpboot	tuolumne(rw,no_root_squash)
/var/lib/tftpboot	-ro	minerva
nick@gwynn:~$ cat /etc/bootparams 
# /etc/bootparams: provide diskless clients with information necessary
#                  for booting. See bootparamd(8) for further information.
#
# Format :  client id=server:path
#
# Example:  client_1   base=server_1:/path/to/basedir
#
tuolumne	root=gwynn-boot:/var/lib/tftpboot/solaris/Solaris_10/Tools/Boot \
		rootopts=gwynn-boot:rsize=32768:nfsvers=3:vers=3 \
		install=gwynn-boot:/var/lib/tftpboot/solaris \
#		sysid_config=gwynn-boot:/var/lib/tftpboot/sparc/sysidcfg.d/solaris10 \
		boottype=bootp-server:in \
		term=bootp-server:xterm
minerva		root=gwynn:/var/lib/tftpboot

Some of those settings are for other installations of OpenBSD, I
think, tuolumne is the netra. gwynn is a debian system too, with
tftpd-hpa, nfs-user-server, and netkit-bootparamd. The versions
of those now are different from what I used before I suppose.
Maybe that config will help you though. I used various howtos
also, I don't remember which one was the most helpful, sorry.
Nick Schmalenberger