User guide

C-8 Sun Fire X2100 Server User Guide • April 2007
To setup the system BIOS:
1. Reboot the server and press the F2 key at the Sun Logo screen.
2. Select Console Redirection in the Advanced BIOS features section, and set the
Console Redirection to Enabled over SMDC.
3. Select F10 to save your settings and exit the BIOS Setup Utility.
C.3.3 Setting Up on Solaris
Note – With BIOS versions of 1.1.1 or earlier, you must modify the asy.conf
configuration file. For this reason, you cannot perform an initial Solaris installation
from a CD over the SMDC card.
To set up SMDC Console Redirection for the Solaris OS, do the following steps:
1. Install BGE patch# 122028-02 or greater to fix bug ID# 6337341.
2. If the BIOS version is earlier than v1.1.2, update it to release v1.1.2, or use an
editor to add the following line to the /kernel/drv/asy.conf file:
name="asy" parent="isa" reg=1,0x3f8,8 interrupts=4;
3. Ensure that the console is set to ttya with the eeprom command:
eeprom console=ttya
To verify that the console is set to ttya, use an editor to view the
/boot/solaris/bootenv.rc file.
4. To eliminate the splash image:
a. Verify the location of the /boot/grub/menu.lst file:
# bootadm list-menu
b. Use vi to edit the active menu.lst file:
# vi /boot/grub/menu.lst
c. Comment out the line defining the splash image location:
# splashimage /boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
5. After updating the menu.lst file, update the boot archives:
# bootadm update-archive