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Hi Gurus

We are not able to boot a SunFire V250 machine which was built with
Solaris 9 with DiskSuite. I can't even get the machine to single user mode
and log on to it. These are my observations

a. I got into the system using a CD and also fscked all the
filesystems.
b. /var has plenty of space.
c. The permissions for wtmpx and utmpx and the ownerships are fine.
d. Don't know whether it's an hardware problem. The other interesting
part is while booting up it comes with scsi and net devices disabled.
Obviously I have got around with it by setting asr to services and then
can try booting from the disk.
e. The recommended Patch level is of 22 Oct 2004.
f. Probe-scsi-all displays all the scsi disks. devlinks and the device
paths are fine.

{1} ok boot disk -s

SC Alert: Host System has Reset

Sun Fire V250, No Keyboard
Copyright 1998-2003 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
OpenBoot 4.11.4, 2048 MB memory installed, Serial #55637045.
Ethernet address 0:3:ba:50:f4:35, Host ID: 8350f435.


ERROR: The following devices are disabled:
scsi
net

Rebooting with command: boot disk -s
Boot device: /pci@1d,700000/scsi@4/disk@0,0 File and args: -s
SunOS Release 5.9 Version Generic_117171-12 64-bit
Copyright 1983-2003 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
Use is subject to license terms.
WARNING: forceload of misc/md_trans failed
WARNING: forceload of misc/md_raid failed
WARNING: forceload of misc/md_hotspares failed
WARNING: forceload of misc/md_sp failed
Hardware watchdog enabled

INIT: Cannot create /var/adm/utmpx


INIT: SINGLE USER MODE

Type control-d to
proceed with normal startup,
(or give root password for system maintenance):

I can't even logon to single user mode. The machine just hangs there.
Any help is greatly appreciated. Ofcourse I will summarize.

Thanks
Regards
Suresh Bangalore

Suresh Bangalore wrote:
> Hi Gurus
>
> We are not able to boot a SunFire V250 machine which was built with
<snip>
> Sun Fire V250, No Keyboard
> Copyright 1998-2003 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
> OpenBoot 4.11.4, 2048 MB memory installed, Serial #55637045.
> Ethernet address 0:3:ba:50:f4:35, Host ID: 8350f435.
>
>
> ERROR: The following devices are disabled:
> scsi
> net
>

G'day,

looks like ASR has disabled your disks/network.

From the OK prompt do the following...

ok .asr
this should tell you what's been disabled.
ok asr-clear
This should reset everything
ok .asr
Everything should be OK now.

--
Chris