Sun Fire[TM] E20K and E25K Domain unable to boot from Solaris[TM] 10 Boot image on System Controller running Solaris[TM] 10 and SMS 1.6

Asset ID:	1-72-1011222.1
Update Date:	2012-07-30
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Solution Type Problem Resolution Sure

Solution 1011222.1 : Sun Fire[TM] E20K and E25K Domain unable to boot from Solaris[TM] 10 Boot image on System Controller running Solaris[TM] 10 and SMS 1.6

Applies to:

Sun Fire E25K Server
Solaris SPARC Operating System - Version: 8.0 and later [Release: 8.0 and later]
All Platforms

Symptoms

Sun Fire[TM] E20K and E25K domains will fail to boot from system controller running Solaris[TM] 10 configured as Jumpstart[TM] server.

Cause

Following error messages reported while booting from Solaris 10 jumpstart image:

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WARNING: mountnfs3: pmap_kgetport RPC error 2 (RPC: Can't decode result).
WARNING: Unable to mount NFS root filesystem: error 6
Cannot mount root on /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/network@1,1 fstype nfsdyn
panic[cpu0]/thread=180e000: vfs_mountroot: cannot mount root
000000000180b950 genunix:vfs_mountroot+2e8 (800, 200, 0, 185d400, 11e5000, 18ac000)
%l0-3: 0000000000001770 0000000000000640 00000000011e5400 00000000000008fc
%l4-7: 0000000001833c00 00000000018ae400 0000000000000600 0000000000000200
000000000180ba10 genunix:main+98 (18141a0, 1013800, 18362c0, 18a8c00, 180e000, 1814000)
%l0-3: 0000000070002000 0000000000000001 000000000180c000 000000000180e000
%l4-7: 0000000000000001 0000000001074800 0000000000000060 0000000000000000
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Solution

For E25K System Controllers running System Management Services (SMS) 1.6 requires the JASS packages and patches installed on Solaris 10.

As we know the JASS script disables most of services for security reasons, so make sure to change the following in /etc/system and /etc/hosts.allow file to fix this problem:

Remove "set nfssrv:nfs_portmon=1" parameter from /etc/system
Add the line "rpcbind: all" in /etc/hosts.allow file

Also make sure the NFS 4 version is disabled on the System Controller running Solaris 10. Disabling NFS 4 version can be done by setting the NFS_SERVER_VERSMAX=3 in /etc/default/nfs file. After these changes reboot the System controller where the Solaris jumpstart server is setup.

Additional Information
It is possible to disable NFS 4 during installation of Solaris 10. There will be a question at the end of Solaris 10 installation

"Do you want to enable NFS version 4 ? "

Answer "no" to this question.

Product
Solaris 10 Operating System
Sun Fire E25K Server

Internal Section

Keywords: Jumpstart, Install, Solaris 10, nfs, starcat, starkitty, E20K, E25K, SMS, JASS, SST

Previously Published As 88045

Product_uuid
5005588c-36f3-11d6-9cec-fc96f718e113|Solaris 10 Operating System
d842dd03-059b-11d8-84cb-080020a9ed93|Sun Fire E25K Server

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