SUMMARY Open Boot device issue

Many thanks to the many people who pointed out that it would likely be the
key manually turned to daig.  Getting a tech in front of the box confirmed
that the key had been turned to daig at some point in the past.

Thanks,
--TomR


On 9/19/06, Tom Riemer <tmriemer@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Sun Managers,
>
> We have a 4500 with OpenBoot 3.2.29. When we attempt to boot the
> server, it tries to boot from disk1 not disk2, but explictly
> specifying disk2 on the command line works as expected.  We have no
> idea why we are seeing this behavior, and we need to resolve the issue
> beyond simply getting the server to boot.
>
>
> Open boot prom settings below:
>
> boot-device=disk2
> boot-command=boot
> diag-device=/sbus@3,0/SUNW, fas@3,8800000/sd@1,0
> diag-switch?=false
> auto-boot?=true
> use-nvramrc?=false
>
> devalias as follows:
>
> {0} ok devalias
>
> disk                     /sbus@3,0/SUNW,fas@3,8800000/sd@0,0
> diskbrd                  /sbus@3,0/SUNW, fas@3,8800000/sd@a,0
> diskisp                  /sbus@3,0/QLGC,isp@0,10000/sd@0,0
> net                      /sbus@3,0/SUNW,hme@3,8c00000
> cdrom                    /sbus@3,0/SUNW,fas@3,8800000/sd@6,0:f
> tape                     /sbus@3,0/SUNW, fas@3,8800000/st@4,0
> scsi                     /sbus@3,0/SUNW,fas@3,8800000
> disk0                    /sbus@3,0/SUNW,fas@3,8800000/sd@0,0
> disk1                    /sbus@3,0/SUNW,fas@3,8800000/sd@1,0
> disk2                    /sbus@3,0/SUNW, fas@3,8800000/sd@2,0
> disk3                    /sbus@3,0/SUNW,fas@3,8800000/sd@3,0
> disk4                    /sbus@3,0/SUNW,fas@3,8800000/sd@4,0
> disk5                    /sbus@3,0/SUNW,fas@3,8800000/sd@5,0
> tape0                    /sbus@3,0/SUNW, fas@3,8800000/st@4,0
> tape1                    /sbus@3,0/SUNW,fas@3,8800000/st@5,0
> ttya                     /central/fhc/zs@0,902000:a
> ttyb                     /central/fhc/zs@0,902000:b
> keyboard                 /central/fhc/zs@0,904000
> keyboard!                /central/fhc/zs@0,904000:forcemode
>
>
> {0} ok boot
>
> Boot device: /sbus@3,0/SUNW,fas@3,8800000/sd@1,0  File and args:
>
>
> Can't open boot device
>
>
> {0} ok boot disk2
>
> Boot device: /sbus@3,0/SUNW,fas@3,8800000/sd@2,0  File and args:
> Loading ufs-file-system package 1.4 04 Aug 1995 13:02:54.
> FCode UFS Reader 1.10 96/10/15 00:57:29.
> Loading: /platform/SUNW,Ultra-Enterprise/ufsboot
> Loading: /platform/sun4u/ufsboot
> SunOS Release 5.6 Version Generic_105181-19 [UNIX(R) System V Release 4.0]
> Copyright (c) 1983-1997, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
> configuring network interfaces: hme0 hme1.
> ...
>
> Thank you,
> --
> Tom Riemer
> tmriemer@gmail.com
>



-- 
Tom Riemer
tmriemer@gmail.com
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