The Sun Netra X1 systems now are made with either a 400MHz cpu or a 500MHz cpu. The hardware differences between these cpu modules may cause the 500MHz units to not boot to Solaris (TM) unless the Operating Environment (OE) being booted has been modified by a new OE image modification file (please reference infodoc 26310). The problem can be encountered in either of 2 scenarios. Some customers wish to copy a disk in a system from a "master", then put the copy into a newly ordered system to ship to their client. For them, copying the disk is simpler than adding all the applications to a new system they just ordered before shipping it. The other scenario occurs if a boot is attempted using a jumpstart image that has not been properly modified.

In the first scenario, the master disk was built up on an OE that was modified using the mis.netra-x1.259-3836-02 file. For the second scenario, the OE image being used to jumpstart is modified with mis.netra-x1.259-3836-02. The current file for the Netra X1 is mis.netra-x1.259-3836-03.zip.

For either situation, a 500MHz cpu Netra X1 will fail to boot. The boot error is as follows:

Sun Netra X1 (UltraSPARC-IIe 500MHz), No Keyboard
OpenBoot 4.0, 512 MB memory installed, Serial #50721448.
Ethernet address 0:3:ba:5:f2:a8, Host ID: 8305f2a8.

Executing last command: boot net - install                            
Boot device: /pci@1f,0/ethernet@c  File and args: - install
Timeout waiting for ARP/RARP packet
SunOS Release 5.8 Version Generic_108528-06 64-bit
Copyright 1983-2000 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All rights reserved.
(Can't load tod module) Program terminated
ok                   

The solution to this situation is to create a new Solaris 8 jumpstart image (version 10/00 and above), and then modify that image with the mis.netra-x1.259-3836-03.zip file. That will add the software necessary for Solaris to run on the hardware plus the LOM software.

• Ed.Wetmore@Sun.COM