[rescue] SunOS4.1.4/OBP/boot problem

[G W Adkins]

If the OBP complains on an older Sun4C box, it's usually because of a dead
timekeeper battery in the NVRAM.
what are you mounting it in?

George

----- Original Message -----
From: "Larry Snyder" <larrys at lexisnexis.com>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2001 7:20 PM
Subject: [rescue] SunOS4.1.4/OBP/boot problem


> Need some help -- here's what I have:
>
> 4.1.4 disk that was partitioned and newfs'd under a running 4.1.4.
> It was then mounted on a 5.7 box as ufs to get a netbackup restore.
> After re-installing it in the original machine, I was able to watch it
> boot once.  Since then, OBP complains about a checksum error, says
> it'll try to boot anyway, and craps with a data access exception.
> I'm guessing it was a bad idea to toss it up on 7.  My options, as I
> see them, are to put the disk back in the running 4.1.4 box, and either
> restore the netbackup client somewhere else, copy it over and restore
> to the 4.1.4 box, or restore the images to an nfs server, mount it,
> and tar them over.  It doesn't appear to be a corrupt vmunix, as I
> can't mount any of the partitions on the runnung 4.1.4 box.
> thoughts?
> thanx!
> -ls-
>
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