[SunHELP] more info on the first question

[Sheldon T. Hall]

Quoth "tim miller" <timjmill at yahoo.com>
To: "sunhelp" <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 5:04 PM
Subject: [SunHELP] more info on the first question


> I did a "reset-all" from the ok prompt followed by
> "probe-ide" and now the cdrom does show up and can be
> used to boot. however the hard drive is still "not
> present" and the cd will be loaded, then a reboot is
> done automatically (w/o intervention) and the blade is
> trying to boot off the network again (which has never
> been set by any of our admins).

Did "reset-all" also reset the boot device?  If so, you need to set that
back to the proper setting so it will try the hard disk.  I don't know the
Blades particularly, but lots of Suns default to booting from the network.

> How can I make it find the disk, or figure out why the
> disk isn't being found?

Is the disk spinning up?  Maybe the disk has died.  Will the disk work in
another machine?  If so, then maybe the controller has died.

> This Sun Blade is approx 6 months old, so I wouldnt
> expect a hardware failure so soon.

No, but things do happen.

-Shel