Re: Sun 220R, cdrom problem

2006-04-28 Thread Shane J Pearson
For the archives (until Sun moves things around again)... On 2006.02.12, at 7:50 PM, Brad wrote: I just thought I should point out the fact that some Sun systems need firmware updates. The 220R specifically needed an update on the system that was used for the initial OpenBSD/sparc64 port, I do

Re: Sun 220R, cdrom problem

2006-02-16 Thread Joshua Sandbrook
Greetings Earthlings... Ok I ended up putting another 220R in the rack and trying that out. Booted straight away, and has an earlier version of the firmware/openboot. I think the problem was a busted/faulty scsi controller or something.. because booting either disk0 or cdrom never ever came up

Re: Sun 220R, cdrom problem

2006-02-15 Thread Joshua Sandbrook
Ah ha! Now this is a good idea. Cheers :) On Wednesday 15 February 2006 19:24, you wrote: > Joshua Sandbrook wrote: > > The thing about that though, is it assumes I already have a working > > system.. eg, solaris is already installed. > > > > Any ways around this? > > The firmware update is distr

Re: Sun 220R, cdrom problem

2006-02-14 Thread Navan Carson
Joshua Sandbrook wrote: The thing about that though, is it assumes I already have a working system.. eg, solaris is already installed. Any ways around this? The firmware update is distributed as a bootable file. Sun hardware can boot from the net. Set up another machine according to diskles

Re: Sun 220R, cdrom problem

2006-02-13 Thread David Gwynne
On 14/02/2006, at 2:24 PM, Joshua Sandbrook wrote: The thing about that though, is it assumes I already have a working system.. eg, solaris is already installed. Any ways around this? I remember migrating an ultra 10 from solaris to openbsd onto the swap partition of the solaris install,

Re: Sun 220R, cdrom problem

2006-02-13 Thread Joshua Sandbrook
The thing about that though, is it assumes I already have a working system.. eg, solaris is already installed. Any ways around this? On Sunday 12 February 2006 23:13, you wrote: > Brad wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I just thought I should point out the fact that some > > Sun systems need firmware updat

Re: Sun 220R, cdrom problem

2006-02-12 Thread Sigfred Håversen
Brad wrote: Hi, I just thought I should point out the fact that some Sun systems need firmware updates. The 220R specifically needed an update on the system that was used for the initial OpenBSD/sparc64 port, I do not know the details as to why that was necessary. Unfortunately with the change

Re: Sun 220R, cdrom problem

2006-02-12 Thread Brad
Hi, I just thought I should point out the fact that some Sun systems need firmware updates. The 220R specifically needed an update on the system that was used for the initial OpenBSD/sparc64 port, I do not know the details as to why that was necessary. Unfortunately with the change in licensing o