OS Deployment Fails on a Sun Blade X8400 Server Blade That Has Correct Firmware

Provisioning an OS distribution to a Sun Blade^TM X8400 server blade will fail if the following conditions are met:

• You specify only the bootnetworkdevice or the networkdevice option when using the load server command

• The bootnetworkdevice or the networkdevice value you have specified maps to a port other than e1000g0 when deploying a Solaris OS distribution, or to a port other than eth0 when deploying a Linux OS distribution.

To provision an OS distribution to a Sun Blade X8400 server blade, use either of the following two methods:

• Explicitly state both the bootnetworkdevice and the networkdevice options when using the load server command

• Do not specify either the bootnetworkdevice or the networkdevice options, thereby accepting the default network boot options

For further information about the bootnetworkdevice and the networkdevice options, see Chapter 3, Provisioning Sun Blade X8400 Server Modules in the Sun Blade 8000 Chassis, in Sun N1 System Manager 1.3.1 What’s New