hi all,
got this Ultra 60 with 2c18GB drives. I have beend playing around with
it by pulling out the srive for Windows OS, now i am putting them back
to Ultra 60, and trying to install Solaris 9, but get this error:

BOOT DEVICE: /pci@1f, 4000/scsi@3/disk@6,0:f File ans args" -F cprboot
Boot loas failed
The file just loaded does not appear to be executable file.


That is the error msg I got.

I did install Solaris 9 on these two drives OK before.
Please HELP. Thanks
B

> BOOT DEVICE: /pci@1f, 4000/scsi@3/disk@6,0:f File ans args" -F cprboot

^^^^^^^^^
It looks as if the machine powered down due to power saving kicking in, or
a sys-suspend was issued. In any case the CPR file can't be found (basically
the system
state saved to disk). Are you sure that you replaced the disks in the same
locations? You
should be able to reboot by dumping the console to OBP (Stop-A on a Sun
keyboard, or
interrupt signal via dumb terminal ). Boot to single user mode and remove
any residual
CPR files;

ok boot -s

.... login as root ....

# rm /.CPR
# rm /.cpr_default
# init 6

Regards,
Andrew

hi Andrew
information on those 2 drives is Windows stuffs, i just put them back
to my Ultra 60 and try to have a fresh installation of Sol 9, but got
that error.

I read few posts on Google about the error, and try to correct it byt
double check SCSI ID on CD ROM and make sure CD is bootable, turn out
everything correct, CD ROM has SCSI ID 6 and it is a Sun bootable CD,
media is ok too cause I used the it to install Sol 9 on Ultra 2.
Any other suggestions?
Thanks again.

On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 12:01:51 +1000, "Andrew Tyson"
<atyson_AT_optushome_DOT_com_DOT_au> wrote:

>> BOOT DEVICE: /pci@1f, 4000/scsi@3/disk@6,0:f File ans args" -F cprboot
>
>^^^^^^^^^
>It looks as if the machine powered down due to power saving kicking in, or
>a sys-suspend was issued. In any case the CPR file can't be found (basically
>the system
>state saved to disk). Are you sure that you replaced the disks in the same
>locations? You
>should be able to reboot by dumping the console to OBP (Stop-A on a Sun
>keyboard, or
>interrupt signal via dumb terminal ). Boot to single user mode and remove
>any residual
>CPR files;
>
>ok boot -s
>
>... login as root ....
>
># rm /.CPR
># rm /.cpr_default
># init 6
>
>Regards,
>Andrew
>

> hi Andrew
> information on those 2 drives is Windows stuffs, i just put them back
> to my Ultra 60 and try to have a fresh installation of Sol 9, but got
> that error.

ok - then you may have to relabel the disks for use under Solaris - had this
problem just the other day with a U60 that had SCA drives that (presumably)
had been used elsewhere. probably you want to make sure that the SCA drives
are attahched properly from the OBP use probe-scsi-all;

ok probe-scsi-all

this should report the two SCA drives, and the CDROM (as well as any other
connected SCSI devices).

> I read few posts on Google about the error, and try to correct it byt
> double check SCSI ID on CD ROM and make sure CD is bootable, turn out
> everything correct, CD ROM has SCSI ID 6 and it is a Sun bootable CD,
> media is ok too cause I used the it to install Sol 9 on Ultra 2.
> Any other suggestions?

assuming that the CDROM is visible from the above check you should be able
to boot from CDROM using ;

ok boot cdrom

HTH,
AT

On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 09:20:21 +1000, "Andrew Tyson"
<atyson_AT_optushome_DOT_com_DOT_au> wrote:

>> hi Andrew
>> information on those 2 drives is Windows stuffs, i just put them back
>> to my Ultra 60 and try to have a fresh installation of Sol 9, but got
>> that error.
>
>ok - then you may have to relabel the disks for use under Solaris - had this
>problem just the other day with a U60 that had SCA drives that (presumably)
>had been used elsewhere. probably you want to make sure that the SCA drives
>are attahched properly from the OBP use probe-scsi-all;
>
>ok probe-scsi-all
>
>this should report the two SCA drives, and the CDROM (as well as any other
>connected SCSI devices).

i did probe ... and the system seen all 3 devices ( 0,1 for two SCA
drives and 6 for CD ROM)

>
>> I read few posts on Google about the error, and try to correct it byt
>> double check SCSI ID on CD ROM and make sure CD is bootable, turn out
>> everything correct, CD ROM has SCSI ID 6 and it is a Sun bootable CD,
>> media is ok too cause I used the it to install Sol 9 on Ultra 2.
>> Any other suggestions?
>
>assuming that the CDROM is visible from the above check you should be able
>to boot from CDROM using ;
>
>ok boot cdrom

but still have the same error

I did try

ok boot cdrom -S (pls don't ask me why, I am clueless on Sol 9 thing)

it boot ok and lead me a bit futher then the system reboot itself for
installation but i got another error this time called Trap 3 ot trap
3e ... no idea
>
>HTH,
>AT
>
>

>
> ok boot cdrom -S (pls don't ask me why, I am clueless on Sol 9 thing)
>

this should boot to single user (safe) mode from the CDROM. Are you sure
that the
'cdrom' alias maps to the physical CDROM device? try using 'nvalias' to
figure out the
full device name for the CDROM. I suspect that you will have a problem with
your 18GB
disks unless they are re-labelled using format. Once you are able to boot to
single user mode
from the CDROM you should use the format utility to re-label the disks, and
then do your installation.

HTH,
AT

Andrew
I did as you said, boot in single user mode and run format/label disk
0, but still no luck, got same error. :-(
Any other suggestion please?
V
On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 13:00:16 +1000, "Andrew Tyson"
<atyson_AT_optushome_DOT_com_DOT_au> wrote:

>>
>> ok boot cdrom -S (pls don't ask me why, I am clueless on Sol 9 thing)
>>
>
>this should boot to single user (safe) mode from the CDROM. Are you sure
>that the
>'cdrom' alias maps to the physical CDROM device? try using 'nvalias' to
>figure out the
>full device name for the CDROM. I suspect that you will have a problem with
>your 18GB
>disks unless they are re-labelled using format. Once you are able to boot to
>single user mode
>from the CDROM you should use the format utility to re-label the disks, and
>then do your installation.
>
>HTH,
>AT
>