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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Boot error Post 22433 by killerserv on Monday 3rd of June 2002 08:37:41 PM

06-03-2002

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I have encounter this problem before, Might be the same with yours. The problem was that the Sparc system was trying to boot of the net and not of the disk.

Power down and press 'L1' and 'n' simulataneously while powering up. This resets the NVRAM to factory defaults.
Here are less draconian measures and good things to check if the
system is having difficulty booting.

From the "ok" prompt (L1-a and then maybe "n" to get to it):
boot disk to boot from the disk and not the net. To make sure it always boots of the disk set the proper variable:

check boot-device
setenv boot-device disk

or

setenv boot-device disk? (where ? is a #, disk = disk0 = scsi id 3)
One person said now type "reset" after the setenv command.

Perhaps the system is in diagnostic mode:
check diag-switch? [it should respond with false]
if not:

setenv diag-switch? false
to get it out of diagnostice mode.

Also make sure the system sees the disk:
probe-scsi

To list the environment variables (good for diagnostics to see why
things are not booting:
printenv

Also make sure the environment variable:

watchdog-reboot? false

is "false" says another person.

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installboot

installboot(1M) 														   installboot(1M)

NAME

       installboot - install bootblocks in a disk partition

SYNOPSIS

       installboot bootblk raw-disk-device

       The boot(1M) program, ufsboot, is loaded from disk by the bootblock program which resides in the boot area of a disk partition.

       The  ufs  boot objects are platform-dependent, and reside in the /usr/platform/platform-name/lib/fs/ufs directory. The platform name can be
       found using the -i option of uname(1).

       The installboot utility is a SPARC only program. It is not supported on the  architecture.  users should use installgrub(1M) instead.

       bootblk	       The name of the bootblock code.

       raw-disk-device The name of the disk device onto which the bootblock code is to be installed; it must be a character device which is  read-
		       able and writable. Naming conventions for a SCSI or IPI drive are c?t?d?s? and c?d?s? for an IDE drive.

       Example 1: Installing UFS Boot Block

       To install a ufs boot block on slice 0 of target 0 on controller 1 of the platform where the command is being run, use:

	      example# installboot /usr/platform/`uname -i`/lib/fs/ufs/bootblk 
		   /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0s0

       /usr/platform/platform-name/lib/fs/ufs

	   directory where ufs boot objects reside.

       /platform/platform-name/ufsboot

	   second level program to boot from a disk or CD

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWcsu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

       od(1), uname(1), boot(1M), init(1M), kadb(1M), kernel(1M), monitor(1M), reboot(1M), rpc.bootparamd(1M), init.d(4), attributes(5)

WARNINGS

       The installboot utility fails if the bootblk or openfirmware files do not exist or if the raw disk device is not a character device.

								    11 Apr 2005 						   installboot(1M)