[tech] New Clubroom Machine: Sidderrog

[James Andrewartha]

On Tue, 4 Aug 2009, Daniel J. Axtens wrote:

> I was trying to install OpenSolaris with the help of [CJS] just after
> we got the machine, but I was getting bad magic number in disk label
> errors (or something to that effect, I forget the exact words).

When you say OpenSolaris, do you mean Solaris Express Community Edition? 
IOW, was it one of the CDs floating around the machine room? Before Sun 
launched OpenSolaris 2008.05, OpenSolaris was what people commonly called 
SXCE.

OpenSolaris 2009.06 can only be installed on SPARC via the automatic 
network installer which itself only runs on OS 2009.06: 
http://dlc.sun.com/osol/docs/content/2009.06/AIinstall/initial.html

> My suspicion was that the OpenBoot PROM was out of date and needed
> patching before it would load the CD.

OpenSolaris 2009.06 does need OpenBoot PROM 4.17 for WANboot support. 
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/advsearch.do?collection=PATCH&type=collections&queryKey5=119235&toDocument=yes 
is the latest version (4.17.1) available for the SunBlade 150. You should 
be able to extract it to /boot and then run
"boot disk /flash-update-Blade100-Blade150-latest" or possibly
"boot disk:a /flash-update-Blade100-Blade150-latest"

> Did you have any issues with that, or did everything boot without any
> extra work?

It booted from the Debian CD without doing anything special.

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