[SunHELP] Ultra 5 running 2.5.1 hangs early in boot

[Adrian.Florea at alcatel.ro]

hi,

try a 'boot -v' ... maybe you'll see more.


On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, Michael Marziani wrote:

> First let me say I have a workaround for this problem but I wanted to ping
> some Sun gurus with a very strange issue that I'd like to fix without
> re-installing from scratch.
>
> I installed 2.5.1 HW 11/97 on an Ultra Sparc 5 with no problems (End User
> distrib).  I then copied over my install a fully patched 2.5.1 "OS Image"
> using an ssh/rsync script another admin had written.  Essentially this
> replaced nearly all my system files, but excludes places that could be
> problematic like /dev, certain files in /etc, and stuff like that.
>
> The problem is that now on bootup I get the PROM banner, then:
>
> Initializing Memory /
> Boot device: disk   File and args:
>
> And that's IT.  It just hangs there with the cursor just beneath the 'B'.
> I can Stop-A and play around in the PROM but that's it.  I can 'boot cdrom
> -s' and mount my disk /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 and everything looks fine on it.
> Only it won't boot.  Any thoughts?  I even did an installboot from the
> CDROM to make sure my bootblk was working.  But I have no idea what else
> to try.
>
> Thanks for any help or ideas.
>
> -Michael
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