[rescue] Help with SunFire V240 Server

[Lionel Peterson]

This is what I see:

{1} ok boot cdrom
Boot device: /pci at 1e,600000/ide at d/cdrom at 0,0:f  File and args:
Can't open boot device
{1} ok probe ide
ide ?
{1} ok probe-ide
  Device 0  ( Primary Master )
         Not Present
  Device 1  ( Primary Slave )
         Not Present
  Device 2  ( Secondary Master )
         Not Present
  Device 3  ( Secondary Slave )
         Not Present
That tells me the alias is correct, but the server isn't "seeing" the drive.

I now know the machine has 8 Sun DIMMs and 2x 1.5 GHz CPUs, since I ran
numerous diagnostics from the OBP prompt.

Lionel


On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 6:29 PM, Lionel Peterson <lionel4287 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Found a laptop-style DVD drive, slid it into the slot, connector lined up,
> powered up the server, and was very happy when the open button worked and
> the tray slid out!
>
> Then I got totally dejected when 'probe-ide' didn't show the drive, and
> 'boot cdrom' failed to open the device.
>
> I don't know the history of this drive, it was a pull I got years ago, I
> assume it works. I will try again in a few days (weekend) with a different
> IDE DVD drive (pulled from a more recent Dell desktop that is no longer
> reliable.
>
> I suppose a proper Sun/Oracle DVD drive could be secured, but I'm gonna
> try a few others first.
>
> Any idea what should or has worked before?
>
> (the cabling in the chassis appears to support simply sliding in the
> drive, I assume the cabling is all there inside the server, not just power,
> right?)
>
> Lionel
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 5:54 PM, mc68010 <mc68010 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 4/4/2013 2:39 PM, Lionel Peterson wrote:
>>
>>> My mellow 's coming back - I have a couple candidate donors for such an
>>> operation...
>>>
>>> Lionel
>>>
>>>
>>>  'probe-ide' will tell you if the sun can see it and if it does 'boot
>> cdrom' should work fine.  If you only find a CD drive, and not DVD, then
>> you gotta download the one Solaris 10 release that was CD images they
>> offered. It was a couple or three revisions behind the current.  I wonder
>> if Oracle still has that up for download anymore. Better to find a DVD
>> drive.  It was 5 cd's to install. Nobody has time for that anymore.
>>
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