[SPARCbook] SparkBook Woes

[Bob Bramwell]

Sounds messy :-(  That does indeed sound like the SCSI disk driver.  Obviously 
you will have to find some other way to boot up the SB, which you should be able 
to do from any Sparc SCSI installation CD-ROM - not sure about the 512byte block 
read requirement on SB3's, but it's worth a shot with whatever you've got. Then 
you *might* get away with simply copying an appropriate driver back into 
/kernel/drv, if you've got an appropriate driver.  You might also check in 
/kernel/drv and in /var/sadm/patch: it is possible that the process of putting 
the 2.5.1 upgrades on left the old driver lying around, or that the patch 
backout information is intact and you can simply remove the patch(es) that are 
causing the problem.

I believe the Tadpole stuff found its way onto one or more of the SUN Solaris 
installation CDs (like Solaris 7) but I can't guarantee that.

Don't suppose you had a backup, by any chance?

Good luck!

> From: "John Appleby" <john at dnsworld.co.uk>
> To: <sparcbook at sunhelp.org>
> Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 15:47:28 -0000
> Subject: [SPARCbook] SparkBook Woes
> Reply-To: sparcbook at sunhelp.org
> 
> Hi guys,
> 
> OK, so maybe I was an idiot for installing the Solaris 2.5.1 updates on
> my SB3GX. Now I get:
> 
> /platform/Tadpole_S3GX/kernel/drv/sd: undefined symbol
> ddi_select_sr_device
> /platform/Tadpole_S3GX/kernel/drv/sd: undefined symbol ddi_register_sr
> /platform/Tadpole_S3GX/kernel/drv/sd: undefined symbol
> ddi_register_sr_dump
> sd error doing common
> Cannot load drivers for
> /iommu at 0,10000000/sbus at 0,0,10001000/espdma at 4,84000000/esp at 4,88000000/sd@
> 3,0:a
> Can't load the root filesystem
> 
> Is there any way out of this other than a reinstall? The driver it can't
> load looks sneakily like the SCSI/disk driver.
> 
> If I have to reinstall, can I just pull a SCSI CDROM out of a server,
> put it in an external powered case and hook it directly up to the SB?
> 
> Ugh, and I don't even have a Solaris CD to reinstall with. We live and
> learn...
> 
> JA


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