Sunfire V100 boot problem

[tplassman]

I am having trouble getting a SunFire V100 with Solaris 8 to boot. As it comes up it gets to the point where it says the ethernet link is up, then says it is using the onboard transceiver, then goes into an endless timeout saying it is timing out waiting for an ARP/RARP packet, and will not come up.

I an totally at a loss as to what to do or what this error really means.

This box does have the lom system installed.

Any help please?

Tom Plassman
Worthington Schools

 

[mrn]

It sounds like its trying to boot from a network server, Try a stop-A and type boot cdrom. What version of 8 are you using?

Mike

"A foolproof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble, then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant."

http://www.airport-parking-site.co.uk/

 

[tplassman]

I just reinstalled Solaris 8 2/04. I am connected to the admin port on the sun box using a PC and Hyperterminal. I have yet to find any combination of keys that will get me a STOP A when it is stuck in its ARP/RARP loop so I am having no luck getting to an 'ok' prompt.

 

[kHz]

ctrl-[
ctrl-break
shift-A
ctrl-shift-A

Try some of those combinations for PC-style Stop-A functionality.

Personally I would run 'rarpd -d' and/or snoop to find why you are in an endless arp/rarp repeat. I don't know what getting to the OBP would tell you about the problem.

 

[mrn]

I'm a mac user so hyperterm is foreign to me. Sorry.

Mike

"A foolproof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble, then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant."

http://www.airport-parking-site.co.uk/

 

[tplassman]

kHz, none of those key combinations were able to break the loop.

I can get to the 'lom' prompt. Is there anything I can do from there. Even some way I can get to a point of reinstalling the OS again in case I inadvertantly turned on network boot.

 

[kHz]

If you are at the LOM and you are on a console you can type 'break' to get to the OBP.

 

[tplassman]

I get to the 'ok' prompt. What can I do here to get the system to boot? It still goes into the ARP/RARP loop and won't finish booting.

 

[kHz]

Because you are getting a ARP/RARP message I assumed you are booting this server from a jumpstart server (i.e., net boot) because a standalone install won't do arp requests.

If you are indeed installing the from a cd in standalone mode and NOT a network installation, then you need to check the settings for boot. My guess is that your boot-device is set to net. However, you could try boot cdrom -s from the ok prompt. You can check your prom settings from the ok prompt with the printenv command.

 

[tplassman]

Thanks.

The boot device was 'disk net'. I finally managed to change it to 'disk' and the system boots fine now.

 

[cndcadams]

tplassman;

I understand you got it working but just figured I would add to this.
boot-device setting of disk net is normal, all that means if disk does not boot try network. also make sure that diag-switch is set to false. If set to true it will ignore boot-device and try the net automatically.

Thanks

CA