hello.
I picked up a used DELL / Force10 S4810-ON model last Friday and had a fun time with the serial cable at first.
I plugged it into the network and it configured an IP address and I was able to reach the ONIE prompt.
So I messed around with that for a bit and used some of the binary commands onie-* to check stuff out.
This model needs a third party NOS so I went on the hunt for it…
FTOS OS9 will not install, I have tried all of the flavors that the support site has to offer. Now WHY it says it will install is beyond me.
- ONL OpenNetworkLinux is the other readily available OS flr these and I have been trying to compile and build the ONLv2 branch for the past two days. The “latest” builds and branch on github are not supposed to work and I HAVE tried all of the latest builds down to 2019. I set up an old latop as a build machine with deb 9 installed. Now this is supposed to use a docker container to make a build environment and I can execute these steps no problem. The deb 7 and 8 builds have powerpc support, so these should be “native” builds. Now I have done a bit of hacking and edited some of the make files to make it a bit more understandable. All of the dependencies are installed and it will start to build fine, but the errors I hae been unable to rectify are:
INFO[image]nlpm:adding package ‘/home/mharbuck/git/OpenNetworkLinux/packages/base/all/onl-mibs/onl-mibs_1.0.0_all.deb’…
INFO[image]nlpm:dstdir=/home/mharbuck/git/OpenNetworkLinux/REPO/wheezy/packages/binary-all
INFO[image]nlpm:Rebuilding onl-upgrade:amd64…
INFO[image]nlpm:Requiring prerequisite package onl-kernel-3.16-lts-x86-64-all:amd64…
INFO[image]nlpm:Rebuilding onl-kernel-3.16-lts-x86-64-all:amd64…
make[4]: warning: -jN forced in submake: disabling jobserver mode.
make[5]: warning: -jN forced in submake: disabling jobserver mode.
make[6]: warning: jobserver unavailable: using -j1. Add `+’ to parent make rule.
Applying: overlayfs.patch
diff: a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking: No such file or directory
yes, diffutils is installed
**** diff: b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking: No such file or directory
**** /home/mharbuck/git/OpenNetworkLinux/packages/base/any/kernels/3.16-lts/patches/overlayfs.patch: line 2: —: command not found
/home/mharbuck/git/OpenNetworkLinux/packages/base/any/kernels/3.16-lts/patches/overlayfs.patch: line 3: +++: command not found
/home/mharbuck/git/OpenNetworkLinux/packages/base/any/kernels/3.16-lts/patches/overlayfs.patch: line 4: @@: command not found
/home/mharbuck/git/OpenNetworkLinux/packages/base/any/kernels/3.16-lts/patches/overlayfs.patch: line 5: struct: command not found
/home/mharbuck/git/OpenNetworkLinux/packages/base/any/kernels/3.16-lts/patches/overlayfs.patch: line 6: syntax error near unexpected token )' /home/mharbuck/git/OpenNetworkLinux/packages/base/any/kernels/3.16-lts/patches/overlayfs.patch: line 6: umode_t create_mode, int *opened);’
make[5]: *** [/home/mharbuck/git/OpenNetworkLinux/packages/base/amd64/kernels/kernel-3.16-lts-x86-64-all/builds/wheezy/linux-3.16.76/.PATCHED] Error 2
make[4]: *** [kernel] Error 2
ERROR[image]nlpm:‘Build failed.’
ERROR[image]nlrfs:Failed to build all required packages.
make[3]: *** [RFS] Error 1
ERROR[image]nlpm:‘Build failed.’
make[2]: *** [pkgall] Error 1
make[1]: *** [all] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/mharbuck/git/OpenNetworkLinux/builds/amd64’
make: *** [amd64] Error 2
Makefile:56: recipe for target ‘docker’ failed
make: *** [docker] Error 2
NOTE: I WAS able to install the pre-built binary but it will not boot up ( ERROR unsupported features, ext2,3,4 errors I believe ) the newer builds are known NOT to work on this machine…
yeah so I am stumped.
- I toasted the ONIE rootFS while playing with it. Luckily the NOR flash Uboot was OK. later and had to go about MAKING a recover ONIE image. Took a while to figure out how to do it. TIP: folder permissions are key to the ct-ng building properly. Built with Lubuntu 18.04.6 LTS. I will post the file if anyone needs it because there is NOT one ANYWHERE to be found. As long as the uboot/bios on the switch is still responding then it should be recoverable. Also this model dies NOT support the grub screen for ONIE# as far as I can tell.
At this point if anyone has:
Switch Light OS install binary local
Cumulus NOS binary ( v2.3 or something like that )
working OpenNetworkLinux for DELL S4810-ON ( NOT S4810P )
or ideas I would appreciate it.