[OpenBIOS] Solaris anyone?

[Artyom Tarasenko]

On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 4:39 PM, Mark Cave-Ayland
<mark.cave-ayland at siriusit.co.uk> wrote:
> 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

Never used the tap device, but -net nic -net user definitely works with OBP.

>>
>> 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?

What about properties/attributes? Are they the same as in OBP?

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

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Regards,
Artyom Tarasenko

solaris/sparc under qemu blog: http://tyom.blogspot.com/