Sun machine boot up

UNIX Solaris
1

Hi I am trying to bring up our Sun V100 machine remotely using hyper terminal. We have connected LOM port A to COM1 of our windows server and have lom promt available.

Now when we type poweron it starts booting and goes through the booting process and stops at the following step...

....

Probing upa at 1f,0 pci
Probing upa at 0,0 SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIe (256 Kb)
Loading Support Packages: kbd-translator
Loading onboard drivers:
Probing /pci@1f,0 Device 7 isa dma rtc power SUNW,lomh serial serial
flashprom
Probing /pci@1f,0 Device 3 pmu i2c temperature dimm dimm dimm
i2c-nvram idprom motherboard-fru ppm beep fan-control
lomp
Probing Memory Bank #0 0 Megabytes
Probing Memory Bank #1 512 Megabytes
Probing Memory Bank #2 512 Megabytes
Probing Memory Bank #3 128 Megabytes
Probing /pci@1f,0 Device 7
Probing /pci@1f,0 Device 3
Probing /pci@1f,0 Device c ethernet
Probing /pci@1f,0 Device 5 ethernet
Probing /pci@1f,0 Device a usb
Probing /pci@1f,0 Device d ide disk cdrom
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Environment monitoring: disabled
Boot device: net File and args:
Using Onboard Transceiver - Link Up.
Timeout waiting for ARP/RARP packet
Timeout waiting for ARP/RARP packet
Timeout waiting for ARP/RARP packet
...

Many forums suggested to change the boot device to disk, however to do that we need the ok prompt and have absolutely no clue as how to break the power on sequence and get the ok prompt from our windows keyboard.

Any help appreciated.

2

Go back to your lom prompt where you typed poweron, and type "break" instead to get to the OK prompt. See this link for more info if that doesn't work.

3

Hi ,
Thanks for your reply.
My problem is when I do have Lom prompt that is when the machine is switched off or in standby.
When i type break then , it will say "machine is in satndby".
Now, I give power on, it will go through a sequence of steps automatically and then end up hanging with "Timeout waiting for ARP/RARP packet " message...
I am unable to get both Lom or oK prompt from this point on...
Please help.
Thanks,

Soumya

4

If you have a Sun keyboard available, hit the STOP key and A at the same time.

5

Thanks for your response, but what do we do when we dont have a sun keyboard we are connecting to the machine remotely using windows machine/ keyboard etc.
Any suggestions for an alternative key on windows keyboard

6

You need to somehow send a break. If your going through hyperterminal, you can try send a break by pressing (CTRL + Break) or some signal or combination of CTRL + SHIFT + Break. On a laptop, the break button was color coded, so you had to press the proper signal button + the button you wanted to press.

-S

7

Usually to return to the LOM you type in '#.' without the quotes.

Then you could try the following:

lom> break
{ok} setenv boot-device disk
{ok} setenv diag-device disk
{ok} boot

or from solaris as root:

root@myhost# eeprom boot-device=disk
root@myhost# eeprom diag-device=disk
8

Hi,

Thanks for all the replies to my post. I was finally able to break and get to the ok prompt and also sucessfully boot up the machine.

The steps i followed as suggested from the responses were,
poweron
and then when i got to the hanging message
"Environment monitoring: disabled
Boot device: net File and args:
Using Onboard Transceiver - Link Up.
Timeout waiting for ARP/RARP packet
Timeout waiting for ARP/RARP packet
Timeout waiting for ARP/RARP packet
Timeout waiting for ARP/RARP packet"

I typed in,
#.
and got the lom prompt back after which, I set
bootmode forth
and did
poweroff
poweron
wherein it switched on and stopped at ok prompt before booting.

Once again thanks a lot for all the help provided.

Soumya