We have an ancient Sparcstation 5 for those few clients that still run SunOS or Solaris. After the last power outage (4 years ago?) we never turned it back on. It had been making some unpleasant noises back then, too.
Now we need it again and it won't boot.
The machine came with one hard drive and SunOS. We bought an additional HD and put Solaris on it. The bottom drive is SunOS and the top one is for Solaris. We've deduced that the original ( SunOS, bottom) drive has failed -- when it is in the bottom bay we get a notice
upon powerup and the machine hangskeyboard does nothing). We also hear a sad whine, dropping in pitch, every few seconds (like maybe the HD is trying to spin up, fails, and then spins down). The whine is still there if we switch the drives around, but we don't get the "SCSI bus hung" notice.
We took out that hard drive and only left the Solaris drive in there (on the bottom). Now when we boot, before we can type anything we get
This is strange to us since in the past we had to type boot disk2 or boot disk3 at the ok prompt.
We really only need to boot into Solaris. Is there some way of changing the drive so we can boot off it? Change the SCSI id?
Hi,
I got hold of a SUN SPARCstation Voyager today, but I don't have the root password. I made a linux bootdisk and tried to sue that to edit the shadow file, but it comes up saying "magic number" (since it's not a UFS floppy).
I haven't got any recovery disks for it, and no documentation.
... (5 Replies)
Hey guys...hopefully this will be a fairly easy one.
I've got an old SPARCstation 5 running Sun 5.5.1 that I just hooked up to the network so that I can run HP OpenView. The box is working fine, but it is broadcasting as a boot server. In other words, when co-workers come in and get ready to log... (2 Replies)
Hey guys...hopefully this will be a fairly easy one.
I've got an old SPARCstation 5 running Sun 5.5.1 that I just hooked up to the network so that I can run HP OpenView. The box is working fine, but it is broadcasting as a boot server. In other words, when co-workers come in and get ready to... (2 Replies)
I have sparc Station 20 which is crashed and doesn't boot from the OK prompt except gives me bunch of errors. How can i retrieve my data from the root drive before go for re-installation. This system has Veritas Volume manager on it don't know the version but assume its 2.xxx.
Thanks
-Adeel (0 Replies)
Hey. i have been trying to configure the on board Ethernet in My Sparcstation 5, i have spent a lot of time on the ifconfig man pages. but it could really be nice with some pro. help. i don't think the interface is running . i don't know what name the interface have, le0 eth0 et0, it just says no... (4 Replies)
I picked up a handful of used SPARCstation10s & 20s and I would like to set it up. I connected a regular PC vga monitor using sun video adapter "1395-SUN". Everything seems to turn on fine...but I get this on the screen and there is absolutely nothing I can do to get out of it.
Lost Carrier... (7 Replies)
Hi all,
I have one problem on my sparcstation20, time stops when I turn off my station, where is the problem? do u think is the NVRAM is crashed? ( for example, I turn off my station at 11:00, when I turn on the next day, I found time on 22:20)!!!
please help me thank's for All (9 Replies)
I apologize in advance that this is probably more of a hardware question than a unix/software one.
I've got a seemingly brand-new sparcstation 20 that came with 2 memory modules and that's about it.
I've added a new 2 GB HDD and a VSIMM Onboard SX Graphics module.
So, I assume with the... (2 Replies)
I am away from my Unix sparcstation and need to work on it remotely via a
PC. I can open a PuTTy window and execute line commands. But I've
forgotten how to be able to work on a graphical program, like xfig. I know
there are some commands to enable this, but can't remember them. (6 Replies)
Hello,
Just wanted to let interested people know that we've recently released a Linux freeware version of SparcStation 20 emulator. It emulates SS20 with some basic peripherals: a single SPARC V8 32bit CPU, up to 512MB RAM, an NCR53C94 SCSI controller, 2 serial lines, disks, a network adapter,... (7 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS
init.wbem
init.wbem(1M) System Administration Commands init.wbem(1M)NAME
init.wbem - start and stop the CIM Boot Manager
SYNOPSIS
/etc/init.d/init.wbem start | stop | status
DESCRIPTION
The init.wbem utility is run automatically during installation and each time the system is rebooted. This utility manipulates the CIM
Object Manager (CIMOM) and the Solaris Management Console server, both of which run combined in a single process. init.wbem can be used to
start, stop, or retrieve status from the server.
CIM Object Manager
The CIM Object Manager manages CIM objects on a WBEM-enabled system. A CIM object is a computer representation, or model, of a managed
resource, such as a printer, disk drive, or CPU. CIM objects are stored internally as Java classes.
When a WBEM client application accesses information about a CIM object, the CIM Object Manager contacts either the appropriate provider for
that object or the CIM Object Manager Repository. Providers are classes that communicate with managed objects to access data.
When a WBEM client application requests data from a managed resource that is not available from the CIM Object Manager Repository, the CIM
Object Manager forwards the request to the provider for that managed resource. The provider dynamically retrieves the information.
At startup, the CIM Object Manager performs the following functions:
o Listens for RMI connections on RMI port 5987 and for XML/HTTP connections on HTTP port 5988.
o Sets up a connection to the CIM Object Manager Repository.
o Waits for incoming requests.
During normal operations, the CIM Object Manager performs the following functions:
o Performs security checks to authenticate user login and authorization to access namespaces.
o Performs syntactical and semantic checking of CIM data operations to ensure that they comply with the latest CIM Specification.
o Routes requests to the appropriate provider or to the CIM Object Manager Repository.
o Delivers data from providers and from the CIM Object Manager Repository to WBEM client applications.
A WBEM client application contacts the CIM Object Manager to establish a connection when it needs to perform WBEM operations, such as cre-
ating a CIM class or updating a CIM instance. When a WBEM client application connects to a CIM Object Manager, it gets a reference to the
CIM Object Manager, which it then uses to request services and operations.
Solaris Management Console Server
The Solaris Management Console server is the back end to the front end console, smc(1M). It provides tools for the console to download and
performs common services for the console and its tools to use, such as authentication, authorization, logging, messaging, and persistence.
System Booting
The init.wbem script is installed in the /etc/init.d directory.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
start Starts the CIMOM and Solaris Management Console server on the local host.
stop Stops the CIMOM and Solaris Management Console server on the local host.
status Gets the status of the CIMOM and Solaris Management Console server on the local host.
NOTES
When the init.wbem script is run, it does not run the CIMOM and Solaris Management Console server directly. The server process is in Java
and is too heavyweight to be run immediately at system boot time. Instead, three lightweight processes listen on three different ports that
the CIMOM and the Solaris Management Console server normally use. This acts similarly to inetd(1M).
Because Java programs cannot inherit file descriptors as other programs can, there is a small time period from when the first connection is
made until the server is fully operational where client connections may be dropped. WBEM clients are immune to this, as they will retry
until the server comes online. Solaris Management Console clients are not immune, and it may be necessary to manually reconnect, though
this should not happen in the common case.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWwbcor |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO inetd(1M), mofcomp(1M), smc(1M), smcconf(1M), wbemadmin(1M), wbemlogviewer(1M), attributes(5)SunOS 5.10 2 Jan 2002 init.wbem(1M)