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Booting a Sparcstation 5 with dead HD

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

Code:

The SCSI bus is hung. Perhaps an external device is turned off

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

Code:

Boot device: /iommu/sbus/espdma/esp/sd@3,0:a  File and args: cprboot
root on /iommu@0,10000000/sbus@0,1001000/espdma@5,8400000/esp@5,8800000/sd@3,0: a fstype 4.2
Boot: cprboot
Boot:  lookuppn failed: No such file or directory (errno 2)
copen: bad vn_open
boot failed

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?

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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)