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04-01-2004, 03:57 PM
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Sunfire 250 will not boot
Howdy all,
I have a brand new Sunfire 250 that will only come up to the "OK" prompt. I try to boot off the CD drive with Feb 2004 of Solaris 8, yet it says that the boot command has been disabled. How do I enable the boot command? Doing a printenv shows auto boot is enabled. I am really confused. Any help appreciated.
-RADAR
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04-01-2004, 09:00 PM
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I assume you are using the boot cdrom command at the OK prompt, right?
It has been a long time since working with a Solaris box, but I believe issuing this command at the OK prompt should force autoboot to be enabled....
setenv auto-boot? true
Hope this helps,
Robert Richmond
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04-02-2004, 06:23 AM
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RR,
Yep I did all of that. What is weird is the printenv shows all of my boot settings are correct, yet when I tell it to boot cdrom -s, I get "The boot-command has been disabled" Well that is never good.
-RADAR
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04-02-2004, 07:47 AM
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If this was a PC, I would tell you to disable "PnP Operating System" in the BIOS, as that normally causes this type of Solaris installation error.
Have you tried resetting the environment variables to factory defaults with set-defaults?
As I said earlier, I am way out of the Solaris game (been years), but I assume this box has a SCSI CD drive, right? Run probe-scsi-all, test scsi, and/or test all to make sure the drive is being properly recognized.
Robert Richmond
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04-02-2004, 07:48 AM
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If that doesn't work perhaps you really do have a hardware issue.
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ed
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04-02-2004, 08:17 AM
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Accomplished probe-scsi-all and probe-ide-all (CDROM is IDE, HDs are SCSI) and all showed up fine.
-RADAR
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04-02-2004, 10:28 AM
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How about reset-all as suggested by Edddy's link?
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04-02-2004, 01:10 PM
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have you tried booting with ANYTHING ELSE or tried a different CD drive?
That would eliminate a problem with the CD drive and the CD itself although I don't see that it is going to be that obvious. http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/content/...olsysadmin.pdf | |
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04-02-2004, 02:09 PM
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setenv auto-boot? true
all that command does is boot the system automatically after the o/s is already installed. try powering the server on and assuming you are using a sun keyboard hold down CTRL D. this will set the NVRAM to the default settings and then you should be able to use BOOT CDROM at the ok prompt. i would say try running diags but not just yet.
if CTRL D doesnt do it, then use CTRL N
Last edited by S.D.Willie; 04-02-2004 at 02:13 PM.
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