[SunHELP] SS5 Booting Problem

[Mike]

I have had a similar problem, where I was trying to boot a sun enterprise 2.
It hung the whole day trying to boot from the CD-ROM. I came to the
conclusion that the drive was bad.

Mike

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Garten" <dgarten at nova.org>
To: <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 8:09 AM
Subject: Re: [SunHELP] SS5 Booting Problem


> Shawn,
>
> Two things.  1) The system monitor does not see a keyboard.  If it does
not
> have one attached/operational, the system will shift display from a
monitor
> to the serial port.  Since you have reported seeing the contents of a
screen,
> I suspect you have already figured that out...
>
> 2) The ">Boot device..." line you sent indicates the system it set to boot
> from a default SCSI device ID of 6, 'slice' d (...sd at 6,0:d).  The SCSI ID
of
> six is usually reserved for CDROMs in SPARCStations.  The 'normal' boot
disk
> SCSI ID is 3.  A disk drive inserted into the lower tray of the two
internal
> SCA SCSI trays will be 'set' to SCSI ID 3 by the subassembly board it is
> attached directly to.  So, to boot from it, type (at the > prompt)
>
> boot /iommu/sbus/espdma at 5,8400000/esp at 5,8800000/sd at 3,0
>
> This will send the monitor to the 'lower' disk for boot.  If there is
nothing
> there (physical or software), you won't get much farther.  If the default
> alias for CDROM has been changed, your system may 'behave badly' if you
try
> booting from a CDROM (command '>boot cdrom' ...to load Solaris or LINUX
for
> instance).
>
> Alternatively, you can attach a SCSI drive to the external SCSI port and
set
> it to SCSI ID 6.  It might be a good idea (presuming you are the root user
of
> this box) to reset the system to the factory defaults unless it has some
> funny attachments or is running something peculiar from a CDROM that
requires
> hte default boot disk to be SCSI ID 6.
>
> I recommend you read (and perhaps download a copy of) the OpenBoot 2.x
> Command Reference Manual from http://docs.sun.com.  Search for 'OpenBoot'
and
> it will be item one.  It describes what is going on behind that little ">"
> and gives you GREAT POWER over Sun boxen.  And you can find out how to
reset
> the factory defaults, too....8)
>
> V/R
>
> DG
>
> Shawn Wallbridge <shawn at maximum-geek.com> said:
> > Boot device: /iommu/sbus/espdma at 5,8400000/esp at 5,8800000/sd at 6,0:d  File
and
> args:
>
> --
> Dave Garten
> dgarten at nova dot org
> dgarten at totalimage dot org
>
>
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