Sun Microsystems AND B100S, B100X, B1600, B200X BLADE

iv Sun Fire™ B1600 Chassis and B100s, B100x, and B200x Blade Product Notes • May 2004

3.1 Preparing to Install Solaris x86 Onto a Blade 3–1

3.1.1 Solaris x86 Drivers and Documentation 3–2

3.1.2 Overview of the Solaris x86 Installation Process 3–3

3.2 ApplyingMandatory Software Patches to the Solaris x86 Install Image 3–

3.2.1 Downloading the B100x/B200x Mandatory Software for the

Network Install Server 3–4

3.2.2 Creating a Network Install Server 3–6

3.3 Issues Affecting B100x and B200x Server Blades That are Running Solaris

x86 3–8

3.3.1 Issues for Which You Must Apply a Workaround or Perform an

Operational Procedure 3–8

3.3.2 Error Messages That Can be Safely Ignored 3–13

3.3.3 Other Issues 3–16

4. SPARC Solaris 4–1

4.1 Installing SPARC Solaris Onto a B100s Server Blade 4–2

4.2 B100s (SPARC Solaris) Server Blade Issues 4–2

5. System Controller 5–1

5.1 Upgrading the System Controller (SC) Firmware 5–2

5.2 What To Do If You Lose Your Password for the System Controller 5–2

5.3 System Controller Software Issues 5–4

5.3.1 System Controller Firmware 1.2 5–4

5.3.2 System Controller Firmware 1.1 5–4

5.3.3 System Controller Firmware 1.0 5–6

6. The System Chassis’s Integrated Switch 6–1

6.1 Switch Firmware Issues 6–2

6.2 Issues Affecting the Web Graphical User Interface to the Switch 6–8

6.3 TheTerm “Trunk”Meaning Either an Aggregated Link Or a Tagged VLAN

Connection 6–10