Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 19:36:10 +0200 From: Joerg Wunsch <j@ida.interface-business.de> To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.2.1 mini-ISO fails to boot on U450 Message-ID: <20040419193610.A40602@ida.interface-business.de> In-Reply-To: <20040415101408.GB41902@beastie.b0rken.org>; from jason-freebsdlists@freebsd.org on Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 11:14:08AM %2B0100 References: <20040415120849.B4638@ida.interface-business.de> <20040415101408.GB41902@beastie.b0rken.org>
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[Sorry for the silence, but I haven't been subscribed to sparc64 until right now, so I didn't notice that reply.] As Jason Mann wrote: > > Fatal SCSI error at script address 8 Illegal instruction > > Drive not ready > > Sounds like you have a dead disk. Hmm, I doubt that. The machine has been running Solaris until it got retired. The only change since is that a few out of its dozen of drives have been removed. > Open the door on the front of the server and check the status LEDs > next to each disk. They were all lit as expected. Just out of curiosity, I've pulled all but one drive, but the same. I found a FreeBSD 5.1 boot CD-ROM, and it gets me a few more messages on the serial console but will eventually fail similarly: Boot device: /pci@1f,4000/scsi@2/disk@6,0:f File and args: >> FreeBSD/sparc64 boot block Boot path: /pci@1f,4000/scsi@2/disk@6,0:f Boot loader: /boot/loader Console: OpenFirmware console Boot path set to /pci@1f,4000/scsi@2/disk@6,0:a FreeBSD/sparc64 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.0 (fenner@sparkle.attlabs.net, Tue May 6 15:11:35 PDT 2003) bootpath="/pci@1f,4000/scsi@2/disk@6,0:a" [here the `twiddle' is spinning] Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf Fatal SCSI error at script address 8 Illegal instruction Drive not ready How's the sparc64 CD-ROM organized, would it be possible to dd the entire image onto a hard disk (using a Solaris boot), and try booting off that hard drive, just to avoid the CD-ROM as the possible source of error? The drives itself are 4 GB Seagate Barracudas. The SCSI controllers are the standard Sym 53C876 (I believe) dual-channel controllers that used to be in the E450. Are there any requirements wrt. the OBP version? It probably hasn't been upgraded for a while... (it announces itself as 3.14). Here's the output of probe-scsi-all (with a single hard drive) for reference. {0} ok probe-scsi-all /pci@6,4000/scsi@4,1 /pci@6,4000/scsi@4 /pci@1f,4000/scsi@2 Target 5 Unit 0 Removable Tape EXABYTE EXB-8505SMBANSH20090 Target 6 Unit 0 Removable Read Only device TOSHIBA XM5701TASUN12XCD0997 /pci@1f,4000/scsi@3 Target 0 Unit 0 Disk SEAGATE ST34371W SUN4.2G7462 Just to make sure I've also dug up an old 8 mm tape medium and loaded it into the Exb drive, but still the same. :( -- J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer joerg_wunsch@interface-systems.de http://www.interface-systems.de/~j/
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