Re: network installation on E220R

Try a non snapshot bsd.rd?

Sean
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On Apr 21, 2011, at 10:16 AM, Aran Cox <[email protected]> wrote:

> I've installed OpenBSD on this hardware in the past by writing the
> bsd.rd image to the swap partition of a previous release of OpenBSD or
> Solaris.  Unfortunately I mangled the installation messing with
> softraid and need to reinstall.  I think I understand the network
> installation process but when loading the bsd.rd image via nfs it dies
> with the error message: "short write".
>
> I've tried bsd.rd from 4.8 and the snapshot with the same results.
> I get the same results doing a network install on a Sun Fire V100.
>
> I'd appreciate any suggestions.
>
> Regards,
> Aran
>
>
> ok boot net bsd.rd.snapshot
> Resetting ...
>
> Sun Enterprise 220R (UltraSPARC-II 450MHz), No Keyboard
> OpenBoot 3.23, 512 MB memory installed, Serial #13111336.
> Ethernet address 8:0:20:c8:10:28, Host ID: 80c81028.
>
>
>
> Rebooting with command: boot net bsd.rd.snapshot
> Boot device: /pci@1f,4000/network@1,1  File and args: bsd.rd.snapshot
> Timeout waiting for ARP/RARP packet
> Timeout waiting for ARP/RARP packet
> Timeout waiting for ARP/RARP packet
> Timeout waiting for ARP/RARP packet
> 10a00 >> OpenBSD BOOT 1.3
> No response for RARP request
> Using BOOTP protocol: ip address: 10.40.41.136, netmask: 255.255.255.0,
gateway: 10.40.41.254
> root addr=10.40.41.149 path=/
> Booting /pci@1f,4000/network@1,1/bsd.rd.snapshot
> 3798072@0x1000000+3016@0x139f438+3255104@0x1800000sendrecv: short write! (-1
< 104)
> Program terminated
> ok