Cannot boot from CDROM nor get to OK prompt SunV210

LittleLebowski · #1 (**permalink**) 4 Weeks Ago

Server need to have the OS reinstalled (5.10 SPARC) and I cannot get it to the OK prompt. I also do not have the ALOM password and I've tried several different methods to zero out the NVRAM but to no avail. There is no ALOM battery that I can pull. I'm connecting via Cutecom (like minicom) and serial cable from my Linux box.

I would sincerely appreciate any and all suggestions.

seg · #2 (**permalink**) 4 Weeks Ago

If you can boot from the hard drive(s) you should be able to use scadm to reset ALOM and eeprom to set OBP.

Have you tried to boot without hard drive(s) installed? If so- what happened?

LittleLebowski · #3 (**permalink**) 4 Weeks Ago

Forgot to add, I don't have any passwords to the accounts. Going to try booting w/out hard drives.

ikorolev · #4 (**permalink**) 4 Weeks Ago

use comand scadm from Solaris

# scadm usershow
# scadm userperm username perms
# scadm userpassword username

LittleLebowski · #5 (**permalink**) 4 Weeks Ago

How can I use scadm without a valid username/password and no access to the ALOM?

---------- Post updated at 09:27 AM ---------- Previous update was at 09:11 AM ----------

Pulled the hard drives and booted. Nothing came of it. Below is the result of me trying to enter a break (~#). scadm won't work at this level; I've tried.

Code:


Please login: ~#
Please Enter password: **


Invalid login.
Please login: 

Serial line login timeout, returns to console stream.

Enter #. to return to ALOM.

pupp · #6 (**permalink**) 4 Weeks Ago

can you elaborate on the cdrom thing? when you power down the system, put in a cd and power up, you can't get it to boot off cd? i take it the system auto-boots from disk?

LittleLebowski · #7 (**permalink**) 4 Weeks Ago

Quote:

Originally Posted by pupp

can you elaborate on the cdrom thing? when you power down the system, put in a cd and power up, you can't get it to boot off cd? i take it the system auto-boots from disk?

That's exactly it. Frustrating.

---------- Post updated at 11:26 AM ---------- Previous update was at 09:41 AM ----------

OK, past the ALOM password issue. I sat there and guessed passwords for an hour and found it

Now I'm at the sc prompt and enter poweron so that I can get to console and the ok prompt. I can't get past it attempting to poweron and looping as seen below:

Code:

\0x09SCSI bus reset recursion
WARNING: glm0: fault detected in device; service unavailable
WARNING: glm0: SCSI bus reset recursion
Cannot assemble drivers for root /pci@1c,600000/scsi@2/disk@0,0:a
Cannot mount root on /pci@1c,600000/scsi@2/disk@0,0:a fstype ufs

panic[cpu1]/thread=180e000: vfs_mountroot: cannot mount root

000000000180b950 genunix:vfs_mountroot+290 (800, 200, 200, 1836ac0, 11dc400, 1882000)
  %l0-3: 0000000000000000 00000000010a8848 00000000010a8800 00000000010a892c
  %l4-7: 00000000010a8800 00000000010a8648 00000000018b0000 0000000000000600
000000000180ba10 genunix:main+98 (1813d18, 1013400, 1835c00, 18aa400, 180e000, 1813c00)
  %l0-3: 0000000070002000 0000000000000001 000000000180c000 000000000180e000
  %l4-7: 0000000000000001 0000000001072c00 0000000000000060 0000000000000000

skipping system dump - no dump device configured
rebooting...
\0x11Probing system devices
Probing memory

And so on..... Thoughts?

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