SUMMARY: Ultra 10 no longer finding boot device (harddrive)

From: Andrew Diederich <andrew_at_NETdelivery.com>
Date: Mon Jul 16 2001 - 18:35:10 EDT
The harddrive was dead.  Not just slightly dead, but fully dead.  Two things
I learned from the field engineer that showed up to replace it:
* to boot off the CD-ROM, use "boot cdrom -s" and you'll wind up in
single user mode
* At the ok prompt, "probe-ide" tells you info about the ide devices. (Just
like
probe-scsi.)  If your harddrive was kaput like mine, it won't even tell you
about the other device in the chain, because the bad device stops it from
spinning up, too.

Call 1(800)usa-4sun and hit one for warranty calls, like this one.  (US
only)

Thanks to Paul Ricca and Ronald Loftin for their help.

--
Andrew Diederich

-----Original Message-----
I have a Sun ultra 10 (Ultrasparc-IIi, 440 MHz) that will no longer boot off
its hard drive.  I'm beginning to suspect it's a harddrive problem, since
over the last year I'll walk in in the morning, and see it trying to boot
off the network.  Nothing is ever in the system logs.

When I try to cold boot it, it goes right to Boot device: net.  So then I
Stop-A, and at the ok prompt type "boot disk0:h", or "boot disk:h".  (I've
tried both.)  I then see:

Boot device: /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3/disk@0,0:h   File and args:
Can't open boot device

In the past I've tried this several times, and finally it'll boot, but
that's not working this time.  Has anyone seen this before, or have a
solution?  I'll summarize.

--
    Andrew Diederich
andrew@netdelivery.com
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Received on Mon Jul 16 23:35:10 2001

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