Try googling around for ok prompt aka obp, openboot prompt commands. I seem to be having a problem with my sun blade 2000 workstation. It has highperformance, crossbarswitch system interconnect that provides high bandwidth up to 4 gbps for ultrahighspeed processors and graphics. Toma4082, from the sunsparc systems im familiar with the ok prompt and the lom prompt on servers mainly is suns equivelent to x86 machines bios. The sun blade series was introduced in 2000 as a replacement to the ultra series. I need to format the server and reinstall a new solaris release, and i dont know how to do. What you use for server and desktop are very different choices. Sun blade 100150 uses an ali m5451 chipset see pci sound devices in advanced linux sound architecture. Sparc machine uses a special boot loader named silo. Solved how do you get to a boot menu with a sunblade 150. This video shows the system booting into solaris 10 operating system. The sun blade was a dualprocessor ultrasparc workstation produced by sun microsystems from 2001 to 2003. Sun microsystems 1015mhz ultrasparc iii cu modulepn.
The sun blade 100 was sold in 2001 and 2002 as a lowend blade workstation. Express computer systems stateoftheart engineering lab and certified technicians will make sure that your sun blade 2000 workstation is tested rigorously and in perfect working condition. View and download sun oracle sun blade t6340 installation and administration manual online. Installing oracle solaris 10 on sun blade zaytsev. Home sun system parts sun blade components sun blade 2000 components sun blade 2000 cpu module. Anonymous reader writes this document guides through the network installation of debian gnulinux on a sunblade150 machine, wiping out the solaris installation. This means that fc disks cannot be used with the builtin fc controller of the 280r.
All you need is another unix machine on the network running rarpd, tftpd and debian net. If you have a sun blade 2500 with a red bezel, refer to the sun blade 2500 product notes red, 816100116. The problem was reported by users of various systems namely, enterprise 450, blade 2000, fire v240, enterprise 250, blade 100, enterprise 220r, and sun ultra 60 at the time of writing, so it is believed to be generic. Obviously i know theres a hardware forum, but it seems more likely someone here might be able to help with this one. The range replaced the earlier sun ultra workstation series the sun blade, introduced in october 2000, was the first system to use fireplane as the interconnect between its single or dual processors and the io subsystem, a few. Note this publication describes the changes made to hardware, software, firmware, and documentation for sun blade tm 2500 workstations with silver bezels. Sun blade 2xxx 20002500 uses a sun cs4231 chipset see sparc sound devices in advanced linux sound architecture.
All the documentation ive found is very solaris specific it assumes having a solaris install server. Id like to install solaris 10 available only on dvd media on a sun blade 1500 that has a cdrom reader. Silo is deployed by the package sysbootsilo and its latest revision 1. Installing oracle solaris 10 on sun blade introduction.
Sun does not officially sponsor, approve, or endorse this site or its content. Must be installed one kit or four pieces at a time. Sun blade 2500 service, diagnostics, and troubleshooting manual, 8175117 sun blade 2500 getting started guide, 8175119 sun blade 2500 product notes, 8175121 find solaris and other software documents here. Reinstall sunblade 2000 with new solaris os release. Sun blade and sun blade 2000 getting started guide. This page describes an network install of ubuntu 6. Cant seem to get it to boot from cd boot cd rebooting with command.
The sunblade 2000 is the latest one featuring suns latest marvel the ultra iii cpu, at a premium price of course. The ultrasparc iie 500mhz processor was respectable in its time, but only had 256kib l2 cache, as opposed to 2048kib in the midrange blade 150. The sun blade 2500 workstation comes with solaris 8 and solaris 9 operating system preinstalled, providing the most scalable, secure, and available operating system in its class. Coupled with solaris operating system, the sun blade 2500 provides fast performance, near. How to network install solaris 10 on a sun blade 1500. Idprom messages if you cannot boot because you get messages about a problem with idprom, then its. The sun blade 2000 desktop workstation holds up to two 64bit ultrasparc iii cu processors. The sun ultra 60 was the first pciequipped dualprocessor workstation produced by sun microsystems. You can have a summary of the ultraworkstation still in production at suns website. The sun blade 8000 modular server debuted at the recent sc2006 show in tampa.
The video card is pci and seems to work fine with solaris. One of the beauties of openboot is that you can invoke the bios at any time on a running system not that this might be the safest thing. Install linux on intel xeon 7400 dunnington nixcraft. When i press the power on switch, the logo light comes on and with in seconds it goes off. With 24 dimm slots per server module, it gives you 50 percent more memory capacity than competing blade servers making it an ideal fit for virtualization and server consolidation, hpc, database and enterprise applications. Sun bladetm 2000 workstationtechnical informationspec. I just bought a sun blade 2000 and a type 7 usb keyboard from ebay. If i try to boot on a cd, it didnt boot, is it norma the unix and linux forums. A lot of information has been compiled in the sun hardware reference that is found on many sites, or on sunhelp s. As for true workstation features check out blade 2000 2 cpus, upa graphics, fcal disks, or blade 2500 2 cpus, scsi disks. Rebooting my sunblade 100 stopped at the ok prompt, the startup information included something like this. Oracle sun blade 2000a29, sun ultrasparc iii workstation. They were very popular in the scientific, engineering, visualization and graphics fields. I encountered some problems installing debian on a sun blade 2000 and i wrote them down, maybe someone could find them useful.
Ive sun blade x6450 server for erp application the foursocket sun blade x6450 server module features intel xeon processor 7000 series and up to 192 gb of memory. The sparc64 port of netbsd should run on these machines the installation instructions are detailed and contains higlights such as getting the netbsd system on to useful media and setting up open firmware etc netbsd is a modern unix, and will provide you with a working environment. Now my blade 2000 is running debian sid with x working properly and without the annoying fan noise. Debian installs normally on these machines, however when selecting a built in network interface they do show up in the correct order. Unlike the earlier ultra 1, 2 and 5, it is a large tower, resembling a larger version of the sun ultra 10. This is the main reason why sun still sells blade 2000, now that blade 2500 has hit the market. Please let us know if you observe similar issues with your hardware. For your desktop, it is very much depending on your personal preferences, and the aesthetics. Sun blade 100 dt ultrasparc iie 500 mhz 128 mb 15 gb overview and full product specs on cnet. Setting up the sun blade and sun blade 2000 workstation poster pdf. The debian sparc port is a distributed effort, just as debian is. There is a fair amount of solaris and t2000 specific information included, but all sparc installs are similar and linux users will find much of this information useful. Sun blade and sun blade 2000 ultrasparc iii cu module installation guide. I unfortunately cant say much about the expected performance of these sun blade systems though.
It is capable of handling most modern desktop needs quite easily despite being a somewhat older machine, and can use multiple graphics cards easily. Both more expensive especially blade 2000 which uses ultra iii cpus without integrated memory. If i type stop a during the boot process, i get a white screen but no prompt that i can see. Sun flash prom guide for workstations and workgroup servers. What are best distributions of unixbased os for desktop. These days, the obvious recommendation is mac os, as it is both a certified unix os, and. Id like to try a network installation using a linux box as the install server. I powered down my workstation, and added a new 73gb fcal disk internally, powered the system back on and booted into solaris 9. To back it up, we carry a 100% satisfaction guarantee on all of our used and refurbished gear, in addition to one of the industries best warranties. Sun blade 2000 cpu module, sun microsystems products. Countless people have helped with the porting and documentation efforts, although a short list of credits are available.
Installed open solaris 11 on sun blade 2000 then restarts with ubuntu 807559 oct 22, 2008 1. Installer the daily netinst cd fails to boot with invalid instruction. This site is independently run and in no way represents sun microsystems, inc. Sun blade 2000 workstation product library documentation. If youd like to help, please join in the mailing list as described below, and chime in. If i repeat this for 3 or 4 times, finally the system will power on fully and boot up.
When i look on oracles compatibility page, i can see the station is able to run solaris 10 811. The following year, the sun blade 6000 system was launched. This might also apply to the similar systems blade and 2000. And feel free to contact me if you still need some help. Sun blade 1500 tower ultrasparc iiii 1 ghz 0 gb 80 gb overview and full product specs on cnet. Sun blade is a line of blade server computer systems sold by sun microsystems from 2006 onwards in june 2006, sun announced the amd opteronbased sun blade 8000 modular blade server system. This allowed mixed ultrasparc and x64 architecture blades. The system has been completly wiped, so i get an openboot prompt when i boot.
Sun blade 100150 sun blade 2000 sun blade 15002500 sun blade t6300 sun blade t6320 sun blade t6340 sun fire v100v120 sun fire v125 sun fire v210v240v440 sun fire v215v245v445 sun fire v250 sun fire 280r sun fire v480v880 sun fire v490v890 sun fire v1280 sun fire 3800480048106800 sun fire e2900e4900e6900. The blade has solaris 8 installed and while i can login, id rather switch to something like ubuntu. The sun blade 8000 chassis can hold up to 10 sun blade x8420 or x8440 modules. The sun blade series is a computer workstation line based on the ultrasparc microprocessor family, developed and sold by sun microsystems from 2000 to 2006. So i downloaded the os from the oracle website according to the documentation i found, to install solaris 10 from openboot should be quite easy. Diskless, but i wanted to try to boot, just to see.
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