I have a Sun V210 that I use occasionally for build testing things big-endian. I switched it on the other day, at it aint comin' up. I was wondering if anyone on this fine forum knows if it can be brought back from the dead.
With the SCC card in, and conencted to the serial management line, if I switch on I get:
The fans are screaming away while these messages are looping.
If I remove the SCC card, there is more info (but not fans):
I'm able to invoke the escape menu, and I've tried resetting the ALOM from there. No cigar.
So looks like bad RAM or bad RAM controller? I tried removing all RAM and booting. No change.
I notice a lot of jumpers on the main board, but searching the internet, I can't find their functions. I wonder if any of those could help?
Having had a quick look through the logs that you've posted - I suspect that the ALOM has the issue!
Although it's a long shot here, the system should disable any faulty FRU's and allow you to login over the network. This presumes that the system is set to do that and that the faulty FRU has some redundancy.
You can then use the eeprom command to change the console output to TTYB (10101 on the rear panel) using eeprom setenv input-device ttyb where you should see the ok prompt you may also have to set the console as well.
I was hoping that the serial ALOM could be revived somehow, but I guess not.
I do actually have a spare mainboard that I could put in, but I've been hesitant because it needs an ALOM password reset and I don't have a Solaris install to hand to run scadm :\
I'm maybe a bit rusty on the vSeries now, but the default ALOM user and password was a "joey" account "admin" - you may be can return to that status by removing the button battery for a while. Also on the v210 remember to transfer the CCS card (Server won't boot without it as it contains both Mac Address and Hostid details).
Sadly the ALOM password has been reset by whoever owned the motherboard before.
Even more sadly, the ALOM password is stored in flash memory, so removing the battery doesn't kill the password.
I found this article (which I'm unable to link to because I'm a new member -- the title is "unbricking a sun fire v210" if you wanted to search for it).
He says:
Quote:
In contrast to x86 systems where you can most often short some jumpers or remove CMOS batteries most values in OpenBoot are stored in persistent storage areas, only the system clock is buffered by a CR2032 battery.
But he does say:
Quote:
I tried powering up the system without any disk drives and the SCC pulled. OBP greeted me with errors on missing IDprom but went straight to a standard ‘ok’ prompt, now I had something to work with…
So I think I can install Solaris via that way, and then reset the ALOM password with scadm.
Well, I was unable to install solaris on the other machine, as it was a "managed system", meaning that you can't boot it with the SCC card ejected. It would just shutdown if you tried to turn it on.
I used another SCC card with a known password to boot it. This confirms the password is stored on the SCC card.
The problem I'm faced with now is that I can't get a 'OK>' prompt with 'console -f', even after resetting all ALOM settings to defaults with 'setdefaults -a'.
Hey,
I have a V210 with a failed CPU fan.
The temperature is currently at 84C and I've been asked to wait a few weeks before replacing as its a production system and it cant be shut down yet.
Is it too hot? Do I risk killing the CPU at this temp?
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