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Operating Systems Solaris Boot problem with SUN Sparc
# 8  
Old 09-28-2009
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Originally Posted by System Shock
Couple of tricks you can try:

Try using your keyboard's pause/break key. *may work.

If your Blade has 2 disks, unplug the disk labeled "Primary" (it says so on the IDE ribbon), and boot the Blade. The Blade will not have anything to boot up to and should come to the ok prompt. Then you can install Solaris on the remaining disk.

If only one disk, remove it and use another computer to erase it/reformat it.
Good idea, actually you can pull out all the disk to bring it to OK> prompt. Then re-insert a disk to start the OS installation
# 9  
Old 09-29-2009
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Originally Posted by incredible
Good idea, actually you can pull out all the disk to bring it to OK> prompt. Then re-insert a disk to start the OS installation
The problem with that is that Blades have IDE disks.. I don't know that I want to plug those when the chassis is powered on.

But, he could remove all disks, boot the Blade, get to the ok prompt, then like you said in your previous post set auto-boot to false, poweroff the Blade, replace the disks, and power the Blade back on.
# 10  
Old 09-29-2009
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Originally Posted by System Shock
The problem with that is that Blades have IDE disks.. I don't know that I want to plug those when the chassis is powered on.

But, he could remove all disks, boot the Blade, get to the ok prompt, then like you said in your previous post set auto-boot to false, poweroff the Blade, replace the disks, and power the Blade back on.
afaik the blade 1500 has fcal disks... should be the same board as a 280r which has fcal disks!

edit:
no, you are right... it's ide:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub...lade1500S/spec

i thought about blade 1000/2000 which indeed have fcal disks...
# 11  
Old 09-30-2009
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Originally Posted by DukeNuke2
afaik the blade 1500 has fcal disks... should be the same board as a 280r which has fcal disks!

edit:
no, you are right... it's ide:
Sun Blade 1500 (Silver) - Hardware Specifications

i thought about blade 1000/2000 which indeed have fcal disks...
Then we should poweroff and remove in this case
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