[SunHELP] Enterprise 2 won't boot solaris

[Peter Stokes]

Hi

I suggest setting

set-defaults 

at the ok prompt to clear back to default values.

Peter


On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 16:51, George Munk wrote:
> Dan,
> 
> Check the PROM variables "ttya-ignore-cd" and "ttyb-ignore-cd". Both
> should be "true".
> 
> 
> Regards,
> George Munk
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: sunhelp-bounces at sunhelp.org [mailto:sunhelp-bounces at sunhelp.org]
> On Behalf Of Dan Williams
> Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2004 5:42 AM
> To: The SunHELP List
> Subject: Re: [SunHELP] Enterprise 2 won't boot solaris
> 
> 
> Dan Williams wrote:
> > I think i've mentioned this on here before, but this machine freezes
> on
> > booting from both the installed solaris and from the solaris cdrom. If
> > hangs as it the cursor (spins ?) on boot. I've tried a few different
> > solaris cd's. The machine will boot both free and netbsd. I saw on
> > google a few people have had this problem before but there where no
> > replies to any of their posts.
> > Has anyone got a clue what is wrong with it.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Dan
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> Sorry to reply to my own post but I have found the problem, I just
> wondered if anyone else had seen this before.
> I tried booting with -v and it seemed to hang after it found the serial
> ports. I dug out a screen and keyboard and it boots fine. The machine
> works fine with bsd. I suppose it could be a dodgy serial port. Once
> it's installed i'll see if will boot up without anything plugged in.
> 
> Dan
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