Hi,
I have T5220 sparc server and I want to install Solaris 11.3 on that. From notes, I know that 11.4 will not be supported.
It is old server, which had hardware RAID (with SAS card). I removed connection from that card and directly inserted both cables on motherboard because I want to get rid of hardware RAID. Card is still there inside server, but both HDD cables are connected on MB now.
I created bootable USB drive (which worked in earlier installation) and trying to boot server from that USB. It boots well, then wait for long time (at "Preparing image for use") and then come in maintenance mode, instead of booting in installation mode. I tried with - text as well as with no argument, but result is same.
What could be wrong, which I am missing here ?
{0} ok probe-scsi-all
/pci@0/pci@0/pci@9/scsi@0
Waiting for AAC Controller to start: . . Started
AAC Kernel Version: 15825
/pci@0/pci@0/pci@2/scsi@0
MPT Version 1.05, Firmware Version 1.27.00.00
Target 0
Unit 0 Disk SEAGATE ST930003SSUN300G0868 585937500 Blocks, 300 GB
SASAddress 5000c5001ce3fa9d PhyNum 0
Target 1
Unit 0 Disk SEAGATE ST930003SSUN300G0868 585937500 Blocks, 300 GB
SASAddress 5000c5001ce77821 PhyNum 1
Target 2
Unit 0 Disk SEAGATE ST930003SSUN300G0868 585937500 Blocks, 300 GB
SASAddress 5000c5001ce76fdd PhyNum 2
Target 3
Unit 0 Disk SEAGATE ST930003SSUN300G0868 585937500 Blocks, 300 GB
SASAddress 5000c5001ce73295 PhyNum 3
Target 4
Unit 0 Disk SEAGATE ST914603SSUN146G0868 286739329 Blocks, 146 GB
SASAddress 5000c50017828771 PhyNum 4
Target 5
Unit 0 Disk SEAGATE ST914603SSUN146G0868 286739329 Blocks, 146 GB
SASAddress 5000c50017818385 PhyNum 5
Target 6
Unit 0 Disk SEAGATE ST930003SSUN300G0868 585937500 Blocks, 300 GB
SASAddress 5000c5001ceca405 PhyNum 6
Target 7
Unit 0 Disk SEAGATE ST930003SSUN300G0868
SASAddress 5000c5001ccf4ea1 PhyNum 7
/pci@0/pci@0/pci@1/pci@0/pci@1/pci@0/usb@0,2/storage@1
Unit 0 Removable Disk General UDisk 5.00
/pci@0/pci@0/pci@1/pci@0/pci@1/pci@0/usb@0,2/hub@4/device@4/storage@0
Unit 0 Removable Read Only device TSSTcorpCDDVDW TS-T633A SR00
{0} ok boot /pci@0/pci@0/pci@1/pci@0/pci@1/pci@0/usb@0,2/storage@1/disk - text
Boot device: /pci@0/pci@0/pci@1/pci@0/pci@1/pci@0/usb@0,2/storage@1/disk File and args: - text
SunOS Release 5.11 Version 11.3 64-bit
Copyright (c) 1983, 2015, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
Remounting root read/write
Probing for device nodes ...
WARNING: /pci@0/pci@0/pci@2/scsi@0/sd@0,0 (sd5):
Corrupt label - bad geometry
Label says 1170142470 blocks; Drive says 585937500 blocks
WARNING: /pci@0/pci@0/pci@2/scsi@0/sd@1,0 (sd6):
Corrupt label; wrong magic number
WARNING: /pci@0/pci@0/pci@2/scsi@0/sd@2,0 (sd7):
Corrupt label - label checksum failed
WARNING: /pci@0/pci@0/pci@2/scsi@0/sd@3,0 (sd8):
Corrupt label - label checksum failed
WARNING: /pci@0/pci@0/pci@2/scsi@0/sd@4,0 (sd9):
Corrupt label; wrong magic number
WARNING: /pci@0/pci@0/pci@2/scsi@0/sd@5,0 (sd10):
Corrupt label; wrong magic number
WARNING: /pci@0/pci@0/pci@2/scsi@0/sd@6,0 (sd11):
Corrupt label; wrong magic number
WARNING: /pci@0/pci@0/pci@1/pci@0/pci@1/pci@0/usb@0,2/hub@4 (hubd0): Connecting device on port 4 failed
Preparing image for use
NOTICE: mount: not a UFS magic number (0x0)
NOTICE: mount: not a UFS magic number (0x0)
NOTICE: mount: not a UFS magic number (0x0)
NOTICE: mount: not a UFS magic number (0x0)
Requesting System Maintenance Mode
(See /lib/svc/share/README for more information.)
Console login service(s) cannot run
Enter user name for system maintenance (control-d to bypass): Apr 30 10:41:55 auditd[104]: getaddrinfo() failed[node name or service name not known].
Apr 30 10:41:55 auditd[104]: mapping to fe80::221:28ff:fe5d:c6e4.
Enter user name for system maintenance (control-d to bypass): root
Enter root password (control-d to bypass):
single-user privilege assigned to root on /dev/console.
Entering System Maintenance Mode
Apr 30 10:42:06 su: 'su root' succeeded for root on /dev/console
-bash: /usr/sbin/quota: No such file or directory
Oracle Corporation SunOS 5.11 11.3 September 2015
-bash: /bin/mail: No such file or directory
root@:~# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Available Capacity Mounted on
/devices/ramdisk-root:a
263M 243M 20M 93% /
/devices 0K 0K 0K 0% /devices
/dev 0K 0K 0K 0% /dev
ctfs 0K 0K 0K 0% /system/contract
proc 0K 0K 0K 0% /proc
mnttab 0K 0K 0K 0% /etc/mnttab
swap 29G 2.3M 29G 1% /system/volatile
objfs 0K 0K 0K 0% /system/object
sharefs 0K 0K 0K 0% /etc/dfs/sharetab
root@:~#
Thanks
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Update - Had to reboot couple of times, and then I was able to boot with USB. Consider this thread as solved.
Thanks