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Chapter 3 Open Issues 19
SPARCcenter 2000 — Does Not Boot Through
SunSwift Card (4064212)
Booting Solaris 2.6 on a SPARCcenter 2000 through a 100BASE-T SunSwift card
causes an NFS read time out, multiple Rx FIFO Overflow messages, and causes the
system to hang.
Workaround: Edit nvram to force a 64-byte burst size on the SunSwift card:
1. Run the show-nets command to get the SunSwift card path name.
The path name should end in:
2. Edit the nvram:
3. Exit nvedit by pressing Control-c.
4. Save your edits.
5. Enable the nvram script.
ok show-nets
...sbi@x,y/SUNW,hme@0,8c00000
ok nvedit
0: probe-all install-console banner
1: cd <device-name-of-colossus-found-in-step-1>
2: 1 constant burst-32
3: 2 constant burst-64
4: ' decode-burst-size >body e ta+ token@ value j1
5: ' burst-32 j1 ['] decode-burst-size (patch
6: ' burst-64 j1 ['] decode-burst-size (patch
7: device-end
ok nvstore
ok setenv use-nvramrc? true