[SunHELP] netbooting a SPARCstation 4 from slackware linux

[Paul Mitcheson]

Kristian,

I think the problem might be that you are using the onboard utp interface.  I 
have an SS4 with Solaris 8 on, and that ethernet interface only comes actve 
when the OS starts it.  (ie no link light until Solaris does 'starting ipv4 
on le0')

Hit stop A and type test-net (I think that's right, but I'm not sat a a sun 
at the moment so can't check) and t will test the ethernet interface.  Do 
help test or help dig to see a list of related commands.

There may also be a test-net-tpe and a boot-net-tpe.  To boot off the twisted 
pair you might need the second of these.

If you still have no joy, you might consider sticking a 10baseT transceiver 
on the AUI port and seeing if that works.

You did do boot net already didn't you?  If you are just expecring the SPARC 
to boot off the network by default, it could, but probably isn't setup like 
that.

Regards,

Paul