I took a look, but it seems a number of the comments have been cut-off: i.e. 'boot net vnc vncconnect=192.168.1.50 ip=dhcp ksmethod=...' Since it seems that the network card driver is failing, is it possible to force load the Sun FastEthernet driver or at least boot to the Linux screen where I can add in my own command line options? -- Michael Karanbir Singh wrote: > Michael Worsham wrote: >> Thanks for the site/URL. I downloaded the tftp64.img and was able to >> get my SunFire V120 (UltraSPARC-IIe) to see the image and load it via >> my CentOS 5 rarpd server. >> >> However, I guess I am running into some sort of brick wall when it >> comes to CentOS loading the correct NIC driver to assign an IP address >> to the server. The V120's on-board network card is coming up as a eri0 >> and eri1 (Sun RIO 10/100 Ethernet [eri]). >> >> If there a way to configure the command line via LOM interface it so >> it loads the correct NIC driver, sets the ip, etc? I though about >> something like kickstart, but the tftp64.img doesn't come up to a >> CentOS Linux window -- just goes directly to where it starts loading >> drivers for the SCSI drives, then waiting for the language location. >> > > http://www.karan.org/blog/index.php/2008/03/01/network-booting-sparc-obp-machines#comments > > first comment might interest you. > > However, you will still need to work out what command you are going to > pass though with what values. >