10 Jul
2002
10 Jul
'02
3:49 p.m.
Hi
I'm not sure if this is old enough. I have a
sparc 5 that has stopped booting. I'm not sure
if it is the nvram that has failed or the disk.
Does anyone know the full name of the normal
internal disk drive? I'd like to compare it
with the one it says it is trying to boot from.
Dwight
11 Jul
11 Jul
7:39 a.m.
It should be something like /iommu/sbus/espdma/sd@3,0:a [1] (that's from memory
so there are some other numbers missing, but it should be close...they aren't
important numbers anyway as there's only 1 iommu, sbus, and espdma in the
system :)
what's the exact error you're getting as it's trying to boot?
[1] sd@3,0 is the bottom SCA drive slot. sd@1,0 is the top (I believe). if
the boot disk is in the top slot try moving it to the bottom.
Dwight K. Elvey said:
Hi
I'm not sure if this is old enough. I have a
sparc 5 that has stopped booting. I'm not sure
if it is the nvram that has failed or the disk.
Does anyone know the full name of the normal
internal disk drive? I'd like to compare it
with the one it says it is trying to boot from.
Dwight
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12:52 p.m.
On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Dwight K. Elvey wrote:
Hi
I'm not sure if this is old enough. I have a
sparc 5 that has stopped booting. I'm not sure
if it is the nvram that has failed or the disk.
There's an issue with dead nvram that plagues a lot of the older
Sparcs, and will stop the autoboot. IIRC, that problem _always_ sets
the MAC address to ffffffffffff, so it should be easy to check.
I do remember that the ELC will still boot, but you have to manually
fix the MAC and boot path on every power-cycle.
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