[SunHELP] PROM flash for Ultra 2 enterprise

[Josh Greenberg]

I seem to remember the Solaris 8 install flashing the
prom itself during or at the end of the install.

I had this same problem (outdated prom, nowhere to get
it) last year...

Its been a while, but give it a shot.

--Josh
--- Mike <msp at monet.bestweb.net> wrote:
> Hello, I've written to the list about 8 months ago
> regarding a sun ultra
> enterprise 2 machine. Some of you may recall some of
> the posts as I was
> having problems booting the machine; The cd-rom
> didn't work, root password
> n/a, no floppy drive, and only a "freebsd" machine
> to try and boot from.
> 
> Well, the CD-ROM now does work, as I discovered it
> was terminated into the
> other scsi interface on the board (no, it wasn't me
> that did it). I want
> to thank everyone that helped in those cases.
> 
> I now have an issue installing Solaris 8 onto the
> machine. the current
> version of OBP is 3.7.xx, and 3.11.2 is required. No
> biggie, the
> documentation gives you instructions on how to flash
> the prom. However,
> after setting the prom write-enable jumper, they
> tell you to save your
> current nvram (eeprom > filename), and then run
> /usr/platform/sun4u/lib/prom/SUNW,Ultra-2. Well, the
> "prom" directory
> doesn't exist on the CD. However, I did look on
> another Ultra-2 machine
> and the above path DID exist on the hard disk. My
> problem is /usr was
> wiped out (missing device file c0t0d0s?).
> 
> So, my question is how do you flash the prom when
> you don't have the prom
> files? Besides, how is an older version os SunOS
> (e.g. 5.8) going to
> contain the latest prom revision? I don't understand
> that ...
> 
> The current OS that's installed is Solaris 5.5.1,
> and again the platform
> is sun4u, Ultra-2.
> 
> I GREATLY appreciate any help, and would kindly help
> anyone offerring
> effective advice in the future :)
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Mike
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