hey guys i'm in university and i bought my self a sun ultra SPARC netra 500mhz machine with the usb ports a vga gfc and cdrom drive
now i have a problem (bought it off ebay) i trying to install a fresh solaris 10 server op onto it but it looks like it previously had linix installed and that got correpted and so it asks for a boot command line
is there any way i can get it to boot off cd? i have the multi disk server of solaris 10 and it plugged into its own screen with usb keyboard
If you are using Sun keyboard and monitor connected, use the stop+A sequence, if you are using your notebook via a serial connection, then use a sendbreak signal (eg, alt+B) to drop it to the ok> prompt. From there, you can issue "boot cdrom" command to start a fresh install of Solaris
check with "devalias" that the alias to cdrom is set. if not, probe for the cdrom with "probe-scsi-all" oder "probe-ide" and use "nvalias" to set the devalias to the cdrom.
i no this may be silly but how do i get to the stop break command
i never used solaris before and i am using a normal usb keyboard that seems to work ok with the server (as from wot i understand if it didnt work it would show up as no keyboard connected)
i think
sorry if i seem stupid
i found somewhere about the button on the front of the netra twice for break n is that the same?
your image name "cdrom" and arguments '' have either wrong syntax or describe a lable which is not present in silo.conf
type help at the boot: prompt if u need it and then try again
boot:
I don't know what a sun ultra SPARC netra 500mhz is supposed to be. I never heard of silo.conf. Could it be lilo.conf? You are our only source of information. We can't help without accurate information.
The OBP ok prompt comes from the firmware. It is like the BIOS in a pc. I don't know what button you mean so I don't know what it might do. Power maybe?
the sun ultra spark 500mhz is the server single rack module i only have one of them and its this that is giving the problem.
it definatly says .silo.conf when i type in a boot device it says its not present in the silo.conf i assume a file that has the boot devices in perhaps
when i turn on the vachume cleaner (thats what i nick named the server as its soooo loud) it takes about 10secs for the screen to come on when it does it says a sort of bios
openboot 4
silo version 1.4.10
boot device /pc@if, 0/ pci@1, 1/ide@d/disk@0,0:a
boot:
i think the problem lies in not knowing what the cd rom is does any one no what the default path name for the cdrom booting is i cnt seem to do the stop a break (using a usb intel keyboard) but it is being picked up
how to i reset the the nvram? i havent got a serial cable as of yet and i only have a monitor attached and a usb keyboard(intel) but it says on the boot process they keyboard is present.
At the ok> prompt, type "set-defaults" . Make sure you capture the existing NVRAM settings, just capture the printenv output and save it somewhere else.
i havent got a sun keyboard i am using a intel usb keyboard which seems to be picked up by the box when i turn it on it goes straight to the boot prompt
what screen are you at? i can't figure this out from the posts. does the system have a {} such as {0} look to it? something to that effect. any output from screen??
Try removing the hard disks. Then boot it it. That pretty much has to send you to the ok prompt. Once there do:
setenv auto-boot? false
Then power it off, replace the drives, and turn it back on. You should return to the ok prompt. You can set auto-boot? back to true after you get the os installed if you want.