[SPARCbook] SparkBook Woes

[Patrick McAleavey]

Hi All,

I have used Sun's Solaris 7 CDs to do installs on the 3GX. The only driver I 
found I had to download from Tadpole was one for switching to an external 
video display...everything else worked like a charm.

By the way I have on occasions used a Mac external SCSI CD-ROM drive with 
the 3GX...to boot the system...as long as you have the correct SCSI cable.

Best of luck.

Pat




>From: Bob Bramwell <bbramwel at shaw.ca>
>Reply-To: sparcbook at sunhelp.org
>To: sparcbook at sunhelp.org
>Subject: Re: [SPARCbook] SparkBook Woes
>Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2002 20:53:24 -0700
>
>Sounds messy :-(  That does indeed sound like the SCSI disk driver.  
>Obviously you will have to find some other way to boot up the SB, which you 
>should be able to do from any Sparc SCSI installation CD-ROM - not sure 
>about the 512byte block read requirement on SB3's, but it's worth a shot 
>with whatever you've got. Then you *might* get away with simply copying an 
>appropriate driver back into /kernel/drv, if you've got an appropriate 
>driver.  You might also check in /kernel/drv and in /var/sadm/patch: it is 
>possible that the process of putting the 2.5.1 upgrades on left the old 
>driver lying around, or that the patch backout information is intact and 
>you can simply remove the patch(es) that are causing the problem.
>
>I believe the Tadpole stuff found its way onto one or more of the SUN 
>Solaris installation CDs (like Solaris 7) but I can't guarantee that.
>
>Don't suppose you had a backup, by any chance?
>
>Good luck!
>
>>From: "John Appleby" <john at dnsworld.co.uk>
>>To: <sparcbook at sunhelp.org>
>>Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 15:47:28 -0000
>>Subject: [SPARCbook] SparkBook Woes
>>Reply-To: sparcbook at sunhelp.org
>>
>>Hi guys,
>>
>>OK, so maybe I was an idiot for installing the Solaris 2.5.1 updates on
>>my SB3GX. Now I get:
>>
>>/platform/Tadpole_S3GX/kernel/drv/sd: undefined symbol
>>ddi_select_sr_device
>>/platform/Tadpole_S3GX/kernel/drv/sd: undefined symbol ddi_register_sr
>>/platform/Tadpole_S3GX/kernel/drv/sd: undefined symbol
>>ddi_register_sr_dump
>>sd error doing common
>>Cannot load drivers for
>>/iommu at 0,10000000/sbus at 0,0,10001000/espdma at 4,84000000/esp at 4,88000000/sd@
>>3,0:a
>>Can't load the root filesystem
>>
>>Is there any way out of this other than a reinstall? The driver it can't
>>load looks sneakily like the SCSI/disk driver.
>>
>>If I have to reinstall, can I just pull a SCSI CDROM out of a server,
>>put it in an external powered case and hook it directly up to the SB?
>>
>>Ugh, and I don't even have a Solaris CD to reinstall with. We live and
>>learn...
>>
>>JA
>
>
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