This video shows the system booting into solaris 10 operating system. 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. 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. This might also apply to the similar systems blade and 2000. Rebooting my sunblade 100 stopped at the ok prompt, the startup information included something like this. I need to format the server and reinstall a new solaris release, and i dont know how to do. The sun blade 8000 chassis can hold up to 10 sun blade x8420 or x8440 modules. Try googling around for ok prompt aka obp, openboot prompt commands. Installed open solaris 11 on sun blade 2000 then restarts with ubuntu 807559 oct 22, 2008 1. I seem to be having a problem with my sun blade 2000 workstation. Home sun system parts sun blade components sun blade 2000 components sun blade 2000 cpu module. If i repeat this for 3 or 4 times, finally the system will power on fully and boot up. Countless people have helped with the porting and documentation efforts, although a short list of credits are available.
What you use for server and desktop are very different choices. Solved how do you get to a boot menu with a sunblade 150. 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. The debian sparc port is a distributed effort, just as debian is. If i type stop a during the boot process, i get a white screen but no prompt that i can see. Installing oracle solaris 10 on sun blade zaytsev.
A lot of information has been compiled in the sun hardware reference that is found on many sites, or on sunhelp s. The following year, the sun blade 6000 system was launched. 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. It is capable of handling most modern desktop needs quite easily despite being a somewhat older machine, and can use multiple graphics cards easily. Now my blade 2000 is running debian sid with x working properly and without the annoying fan noise. Sparc machine uses a special boot loader named silo. Oracle sun blade 2000a29, sun ultrasparc iii workstation. If i try to boot on a cd, it didnt boot, is it norma the unix and linux forums. The sunblade 2000 is the latest one featuring suns latest marvel the ultra iii cpu, at a premium price of course. This is the main reason why sun still sells blade 2000, now that blade 2500 has hit the market. These days, the obvious recommendation is mac os, as it is both a certified unix os, and. Id like to install solaris 10 available only on dvd media on a sun blade 1500 that has a cdrom reader. Sun does not officially sponsor, approve, or endorse this site or its content. Sun flash prom guide for workstations and workgroup servers.
This page describes an network install of ubuntu 6. 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. The sun blade series was introduced in 2000 as a replacement to the ultra series. The video card is pci and seems to work fine with solaris. This site is independently run and in no way represents sun microsystems, inc. Installing oracle solaris 10 on sun blade introduction. When i look on oracles compatibility page, i can see the station is able to run solaris 10 811. For your desktop, it is very much depending on your personal preferences, and the aesthetics. 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. Sun blade 2xxx 20002500 uses a sun cs4231 chipset see sparc sound devices in advanced linux sound architecture.
Sun blade 100 dt ultrasparc iie 500 mhz 128 mb 15 gb overview and full product specs on cnet. Silo is deployed by the package sysbootsilo and its latest revision 1. If you have a sun blade 2500 with a red bezel, refer to the sun blade 2500 product notes red, 816100116. 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. 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. Id like to try a network installation using a linux box as the install server. 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. I powered down my workstation, and added a new 73gb fcal disk internally, powered the system back on and booted into solaris 9. Must be installed one kit or four pieces at a time. Idprom messages if you cannot boot because you get messages about a problem with idprom, then its. This means that fc disks cannot be used with the builtin fc controller of the 280r.
Anonymous reader writes this document guides through the network installation of debian gnulinux on a sunblade150 machine, wiping out the solaris installation. Coupled with solaris operating system, the sun blade 2500 provides fast performance, near. 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. I unfortunately cant say much about the expected performance of these sun blade systems though. I encountered some problems installing debian on a sun blade 2000 and i wrote them down, maybe someone could find them useful. 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. Install linux on intel xeon 7400 dunnington nixcraft. And feel free to contact me if you still need some help. Both more expensive especially blade 2000 which uses ultra iii cpus without integrated memory. Note this publication describes the changes made to hardware, software, firmware, and documentation for sun blade tm 2500 workstations with silver bezels. You can have a summary of the ultraworkstation still in production at suns website.
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. As for true workstation features check out blade 2000 2 cpus, upa graphics, fcal disks, or blade 2500 2 cpus, scsi disks. Diskless, but i wanted to try to boot, just to see. Installer the daily netinst cd fails to boot with invalid instruction. View and download sun oracle sun blade t6340 installation and administration manual online. Sun blade and sun blade 2000 getting started guide. 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. The system has been completly wiped, so i get an openboot prompt when i boot. 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 blade has solaris 8 installed and while i can login, id rather switch to something like ubuntu. How to network install solaris 10 on a sun blade 1500. 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. Unlike the earlier ultra 1, 2 and 5, it is a large tower, resembling a larger version of the sun ultra 10. Sun blade 100150 uses an ali m5451 chipset see pci sound devices in advanced linux sound architecture. What are best distributions of unixbased os for desktop. Sun blade 2000 cpu module, sun microsystems products. Sun bladetm 2000 workstationtechnical informationspec. The sun ultra 60 was the first pciequipped dualprocessor workstation produced by sun microsystems. All the documentation ive found is very solaris specific it assumes having a solaris install server. This allowed mixed ultrasparc and x64 architecture blades.
Reinstall sunblade 2000 with new solaris os release. Cant seem to get it to boot from cd boot cd rebooting with command. Sun blade and sun blade 2000 ultrasparc iii cu module installation guide. The sun blade 2000 desktop workstation holds up to two 64bit ultrasparc iii cu processors. The sun blade 100 was sold in 2001 and 2002 as a lowend blade workstation. If youd like to help, please join in the mailing list as described below, and chime in. The sun blade was a dualprocessor ultrasparc workstation produced by sun microsystems from 2001 to 2003. 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. Setting up the sun blade and sun blade 2000 workstation poster pdf. Sun blade 2000 workstation product library documentation. Obviously i know theres a hardware forum, but it seems more likely someone here might be able to help with this one. The sun blade 8000 modular server debuted at the recent sc2006 show in tampa. Please let us know if you observe similar issues with your hardware. Sun microsystems 1015mhz ultrasparc iii cu modulepn.
When i press the power on switch, the logo light comes on and with in seconds it goes off. I just bought a sun blade 2000 and a type 7 usb keyboard from ebay. They were very popular in the scientific, engineering, visualization and graphics fields. Sun blade 1500 tower ultrasparc iiii 1 ghz 0 gb 80 gb overview and full product specs on cnet.