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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