Trying to configure RedHat Enterprise 4.3 linux jumpstart server
I am trying to configure a system under RedHat Enterprise 4.3 linux to jumpstart
a Sun Ultra 60 and install Solaris 9. Web pages and SysAdmin 4/2005 article
"Portable JumpStart Environment" have not addressed my problem. I am using
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Server V3.0.1. The bootblock is
delivered to the sun client and executes.
The entries in dhcpd.conf conform to those published in various Web
pages and the article "Portable Jumpstart".
The Solaris 9 OS distribution is exported thus:
/wksxxx.xx.xx.0/24(ro,wdelay,no_root_squash,mountpoint)
The load fails upon execution of .../Solaris_9/Tools/Boot/sbin/rcS
I think the problem may be with NFS. The mount request of the
exported filesystem appears to work:
rpc.mountd: authenticated mount request from sunxxx.xx.xx.xx:1023 for /wks/dist/sun/sparc/sunos5.9/9_404/Solaris_9/Tools/Boot (/wks)
The first errors reported are:
/sbin/rcS: /dev/null: cannot open
/sbin/rcS: /dev/null cannot create
I have captured the conversation between the linux jumpstart server and
the Sun client using tcpdump: tcpdump -vvv -s 192 host server and client.
I am not highly skilled at interpreting the tcpdump output; the cause of
the failure is not obvious to me.
I have successfully used a jumpstart server under Solaris 9 for quite some time. ISC DHCP is deployed on the Solaris jumpstart server.
Thank you,
D. Castellano
