1.  Is there a way I can look at the output of the boot-up screen?  Or
maybe I mean, is there a boot log?  If Yes, where is it located?
2.  Ever since I set, `eeprom local-mac-address?=true` I receive a
"WARNING: IP: Hardware address..." error during boot:

[NOTE: the other error messages have ALWAYS been there, since install;
and I've installed like 5 times...each time its there...don't know
much about Alternate Pathing]

"
Boot device: disk:a   File and args:
SunOS Release 5.8 Version Generic_108528-07 64 bit
WARNING: ap: no database locations
configuring IPv4 interfaces: eri0
starting DHCP on eri0
WARNING: IP: Hardware address `00:10:a4:7a:f9:f0` trying to be our
address 192.168.1.101!

Hostname: unknown
metainit: unknown: there are no existing databases

Setting default ipV4....
setting hostname to kruptos. Done.  
"


Now, if `eeprom local-mac-address?=false` (which is Default)  I can't
use the hostname in /etc/nodename as my server name when using
../add_install_client -p/s server_name:/export/install/js.....


Sorry gang, I know, I can be quite confusing.  Ask me any questions
that might help me clarify myself.  LOL


whoooo-haaaaaaa *exhales*
Asan.

Asan Lui <asanlui2@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 1.  Is there a way I can look at the output of the boot-up screen?  Or
> maybe I mean, is there a boot log?  If Yes, where is it located?

No.

Some of the messages that appear on screen are initially sent to a
buffer in the kernel.  That buffer can be seen with dmesg, and it's
contents are sent to the messages file when syslog starts running.

Other messages are sent directly to /dev/console.  Since that device is
available for startup scripts before writeable filesystems are mounted,
there's no overall log for it.  The topic has been discussed in the
past, but it's not done today.

> WARNING: IP: Hardware address `00:10:a4:7a:f9:f0` trying to be our
> address 192.168.1.101!

Kind of interesting..  

1) What is the output of 'ifconfig -a' (as root)?  
2) is that mac address one of your addresses?

> Now, if `eeprom local-mac-address?=false` (which is Default)  I can't
> use the hostname in /etc/nodename as my server name when using
> ./add_install_client -p/s server_name:/export/install/js.....

What breaks if that happens?  If 'local-mac-address' is breaking that,
then there seems to be something pretty wrong with the networking setup
on this box.

Only hme0 seems to be configured.  Is that the only network connection
to the box?

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Darren Dunham                                           ddunham@taos.com
Unix System Administrator                    Taos - The SysAdmin Company
Got some Dr Pepper?                           San Francisco, CA bay area
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Darren Dunham <ddunham@redwood.taos.com> wrote in message news:<3dUNb.11621$QG6.1020@newssvr27.news.prodigy.com>...
> Asan Lui <asanlui2@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > 1.  Is there a way I can look at the output of the boot-up screen?  Or
> > maybe I mean, is there a boot log?  If Yes, where is it located?
> 
> No.
> 
> Some of the messages that appear on screen are initially sent to a
> buffer in the kernel.  That buffer can be seen with dmesg, and it's
> contents are sent to the messages file when syslog starts running.
> 
> Other messages are sent directly to /dev/console.  Since that device is
> available for startup scripts before writeable filesystems are mounted,
> there's no overall log for it.  The topic has been discussed in the
> past, but it's not done today.
> 
> > WARNING: IP: Hardware address `00:10:a4:7a:f9:f0` trying to be our
> > address 192.168.1.101!
> 
> Kind of interesting..  
> 
> 1) What is the output of 'ifconfig -a' (as root)?  
> 2) is that mac address one of your addresses?

Sorry, forgot to write that part...no, that mac address does not show
up in the output of 'ifconfig -a'.

> > Now, if `eeprom local-mac-address?=false` (which is Default)  I can't
> > use the hostname in /etc/nodename as my server name when using
> > ./add_install_client -p/s server_name:/export/install/js.....
> 
> What breaks if that happens?  If 'local-mac-address' is breaking that,
> then there seems to be something pretty wrong with the networking setup
> on this box.
> 
> Only hme0 seems to be configured.  Is that the only network connection
> to the box?

I don't have hme0 set-up.  Only '/etc/hostname.eri0'.  I'm not sure
what created it, but an '/etc/hostname6.eri0.'  I did create an
'/etc/hostname.hme0' before.  I thought maybe it would help fix a
hostname issue I had previously.  I fixed that problem using a
'set_hostname' script, given from Rich Teer's site @ rite-group.com. 
The only interfaces that ifconfig returns are the loopback (lo0) and
eri0.


Alright...*sigh*...I'm not getting the message anymore.  But I didn't
change anything!  I'm searching for the message via logs & dmesg nows.

*BIG FLOP OF HANDS*
Asan.

Asan Lui <asanlui2@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Only hme0 seems to be configured.  Is that the only network connection
>> to the box?

> I don't have hme0 set-up.  Only '/etc/hostname.eri0'.  I'm not sure
> what created it, but an '/etc/hostname6.eri0.'  I did create an
> '/etc/hostname.hme0' before.  I thought maybe it would help fix a
> hostname issue I had previously.  I fixed that problem using a
> 'set_hostname' script, given from Rich Teer's site @ rite-group.com. 
> The only interfaces that ifconfig returns are the loopback (lo0) and
> eri0.

My bad, wrote hme instead of eri.

/etc/hostname6.eri0 is an IPV6 interface.  You can delete it if you're
not doing IPV6 stuff.  I don't know why it would matter, but you could
try that.

> Alright...*sigh*...I'm not getting the message anymore.  But I didn't
> change anything!  I'm searching for the message via logs & dmesg nows.

> *BIG FLOP OF HANDS*

:-)  

-- 
Darren Dunham                                           ddunham@taos.com
Unix System Administrator                    Taos - The SysAdmin Company
Got some Dr Pepper?                           San Francisco, CA bay area
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