SOLVED -- Problems getting a brand new E4500 to boot?
2007-12-24 20:13:00
something else. I fixed the problem by editing the nvramrc. Formerly, it
contained the single line:
0: devalias ge0 /sbus at 2,0/network at 2,100000
I editied it to contain the following:
0: devalias disk /sbus at 2,0/SUNW,socal at d,10000/sf at 0,0/ssd at w2200002037e38106,0
1: devalias ge0 /sbus at 2,0/network at 2,100000
Now it boots from the disk just fine.
Michael
> Hello all,
>
> I am trying to set up a beast that I have never dealt with before -- an
> Enterprise 4500 w/ an A5200 StorEdge attached via fiber. I have the machine
> booting from the net and performing a Solaris 7 JumpStart installation
> smashingly -- except that it failes to reboot itself after installation, and
> it fails to boot when I type 'reset' from the prom.
>
> In my JumpStart profile I have the following two lines:
>
> filesys c0t0d0s0 176 /
> boot_device c0t0d0s0 update
>
> Which I thought would automatically take care of setting the prom boot
> settings for me. But what I have found is that once the installation finishes
> the machine sits there at the root prompt without rebooting the machine.
> What's more, manually halting the net-booted OS and typing 'reset' from the
> prom results in the machine trying to boot from the net again.
>
> If I then type:
>
> boot /sbus at 2,0/SUNW,socal at d,10000/sf at 0,0/ssd at w2200002037e38106,0
>
> It boots up just fine, and I am rewarded with a login prompt.
>
> I have tried setting the boot-device with:
>
> boot-device /sbus at 2,0/SUNW,socal at d,10000/sf at 0,0/ssd at w2200002037e38106,0
>
> And I have verified that auto-boot? is set to true.
>
> Any ideas? I'm hoping that there is something silly that I don't know how to
> do in eprom that will fix things up right quick.
>
> Below is the output of printenv:
>
> Variable Name Value Default Value
>
> disabled-memory-list
> disabled-board-list
> memory-interleave max max
> configuration-policy component component
> scsi-initiator-id 7 7
> keyboard-click? false false
> keymap
> ttyb-rts-dtr-off false false
> ttyb-ignore-cd true true
> ttya-rts-dtr-off false false
> ttya-ignore-cd true true
> ttyb-mode 9600,8,n,1,- 9600,8,n,1,-
> ttya-mode 9600,8,n,1,- 9600,8,n,1,-
> sbus-specific-probe
> sbus-probe-default d3120 d3120
> mfg-mode off off
> diag-level max max
> powerfail-time 0 0
> #power-cycles 1426063426
> fcode-debug? false false
> load-base 16384 16384
> boot-command boot boot
> auto-boot? true true
> watchdog-reboot? false false
> diag-file
> diag-device disk diskbrd diskisp dis ... disk diskbrd diskisp dis ...
> boot-file
> boot-device /sbus at 2,0/SUNW,socal at d,1 ... disk diskbrd diskisp dis ...
> local-mac-address? false false
> ansi-terminal? true true
> screen-#columns 80 80
> screen-#rows 34 34
> silent-mode? false false
> use-nvramrc? true false
> nvramrc
> security-mode none
> security-password
> security-#badlogins 2684354560
> oem-logo
> oem-logo? false false
> oem-banner
> oem-banner? false false
> hardware-revision
> last-hardware-update 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ...
> diag-switch? true true
>
>
> Your help is appreciated,
>
> Michael Peek
>
>
> Michael Peek peek at tiem.utk.edu
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