[OpenBIOS] Solaris anyone?

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

On 24/04/11 00:17, Nick Couchman wrote:

> Okay, I got passed the issue with formatting the root filesystem.
> Apparently there are some limitations on the C/H/S parameters you use
> for the disk that correspond with how UFS wants to format a new
> filesystem.  I'm not sure what exactly those limitations are at this
> point, but, by adjusting a couple of the C/H/S settings when using
> format to set up the disk I was able to get it to work correctly.  So, I
> now have Solaris 9 installed on qemu-system-sparc with OpenBIOS!  I'll
> probably go back to Solaris 8 as that one has a free binary license
> while Solaris 9 is a commercial license, IIRC.  I do own a Solaris 9
> commercial license, but I like the free idea, better.

Awesome! If you can make a note of what you had to do in order to get it 
to work and post it to the list, I'm sure lots of people will be very 
grateful :)

> Anyway, now I'm on to an issue with networking - I've used the following
> two qemu network parameter combinations:
> -net nic -net tap,ifname=tap0
> -net nic -net user
>
> In the first instance, tap0 was configured on my Linux box and added to
> my bridge br0.  In both cases the Solaris system is unable to obtain a
> DHCP address - the DHCP client times out.  Not sure if I should be using
> a different parameter set, or if this is another area that needs some
> work either for OpenBIOS or qemu?

Okay - I missed this as when I was stepping through the installer I 
didn't bother with any of the networking stuff. However there is 
definitely a bug here - running tcpdump on the bridge interface shows 
data packets with junk in them rather than a proper DHCP request, so I'm 
wondering if OpenBIOS doesn't initialise something in the NIC correctly? 
Or maybe it's another alignment issue with the the LANCE buffers?

Anyway, I'll take a look but it may take me a little time to figure out 
what's going on.


ATB,

Mark.

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