[geeks] V490 falling into interactive mode on jumpstart

[Nadine Miller]

On Nov 14, 2008, at 7:55 AM, Jonathan Katz wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 10:52 AM, Nadine Miller <velociraptor at gmail.com 
> >wrote:
>
>>
>> I don't think that's the issue, because it fails right to the  
>> "help" you
>> get at the beginning of the automated install (e.g. "F2" vs  
>> "ESC_2", etc) as
>> soon as it gets booted, iirc, never getting to the "Starting Java"  
>> line.
>>
>
> Yeah, check the hard drive sizes. Also, it could be that for  
> whatever reason
> on the "oddball" V490 that the hard drive is coming up on a different
> controller (c1 vs c0, or something) and that could fubar your  
> jumpstart. I
> had that happen on identical V240s with Solaris 9 and could never  
> figure out
> why. The "rootdisk.s1" stuff in the profile didn't fix it, either, I  
> had to
> be explicit in the profile for some reason. My memory is hazy.

Thanks for the suggestions, Jonathan, I will double-check the drive  
stuff.  On the T5120, I had the controller incorrect in the profile  
for the root disk.  This failed out to the "ok" prompt, indicating  
that it couldn't open the root device--I guess Sun's maybe learned  
something about giving better error messages. ;-)

=Nadine=