Solaris

I have Sun 240 server with Solaris 8 installed. I go to OBP and try to boot in single-user mode but it is getting hung in the middle and the only way to get out of this situation is by going to the LOM and resetting the server. Here is what is happening:

{0} ok boot -s

SC Alert: Host System has Reset

SC Alert: CRITICAL ALARM is set
Probing system devices
Probing memory
Probing I/O buses

Netra 240, No Keyboard
Copyright 2006 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
OpenBoot 4.22.19, 2048 MB memory installed, Serial #75049468.
Ethernet address 0:14:4f:79:29:fc, Host ID: 847929fc.

Rebooting with command: boot -s
Boot device: /pci@1c,600000/scsi@2/disk@0,0 File and args: -s
SunOS Release 5.8 Version Generic_117350-45 64-bit
Copyright 1983-2003 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
WARNING: forceload of misc/md_trans failed
WARNING: forceload of misc/md_raid failed
WARNING: forceload of misc/md_hotspares failed
WARNING: forceload of misc/md_sp failed
Hardware watchdog enabled
Restoring uplink0 configuration
Linking uplink0 to bge0 as link A
upLink v1.2.5r00
upLink instance 0 ether 00:02:bb:aa:aa:00
upLink instance 1 ether 00:02:bb:aa:aa:01
NOTICE: Recognized a 'bge' interface
Linking uplink0 to ce0 as link B
Restoring uplink1 configuration
Linking uplink1 to bge1 as link A
NOTICE: Recognized a 'bge' interface
Linking uplink1 to ce1 as link B
configuring IPv4 interfaces: uplink0 uplink1.
Hostname: greenwood

Nothing comes up after that. It is then when I go to the LOM (#.) and reset the server. Can anyone help troubleshoot this?

can you boot the system and then issue `reboot -- -s`??? just thinking of a quick work around.

Freezing after hostname is displayed usually happens when a box is configured as part of a domain and it is not reaching the domain controller for whatever reason. If that's the case, you'll have to boot from cd or net, then remove the contents of /etc/defaultdomain.

Set auto-boot to false.Try booting from cdrom to single user, then maye fsck ?
Then reset-all from ok> prompt and boot again.
If still fails, your system nvram could have some "corruption". save a copy of the nvram settings and do a "set-defaluts" at the ok> prompt, reset-all once more than boot up.

reboot -- -s did not work either... same behavior

I do not find /etc/defaultdomain when in multi-user mode. Are you saying it should be there when I boot from CD? I am using Solaris 8

Tried fsck and fixed all reported errors. Then did "set-defaluts" at the ok> prompt, reset-all once more then boot up in single-user mode but failed again!

Other thought??

Is it a Solaris 10? new setup?
By the way, any changes made to /etc/hosts and /etc/nsswitch.conf files?
whats the patch level of the system? You have have configured for any DNS, remove it and reboot and see again.. looks familiar

Ok, now I'm a little confused...
You can boot the box to multi-user mode to look at /etc/defaultdomain but not on single user mode? It wouldn't be on the CD, it would be on your hard drive.

what I was saying is that, in my experience of a box booting up and stopping forever after the hostname is displayed in the boot process, the reason why that happened was because the box was part of a NIS domain, which is declared in /etc/defaultdomain, and the server could not see the domain master, therefore it hung forever waiting for the master to respond.