Hello group,

I have an interesting one here. I have an Ultra 30 here as a test machine. I
swapped hard drives and loaded Solaris 10. Ever since I swapped hard drives
the Ultra 30 it has been doing some strange things.

When I power the machine on with the keyboard, it gives the appearance that
it will boot, I am greeted with the open boot (ver. 3.25) screen and the
machine begins to init the memory - when that completes, it says something
about boot device "boot file and args:" then the machine hangs. I cannot do
anything with the keyboard (i.e. Stop-A) - all I can do is power off the
computer. Speaking of Stop-A, I can hit that when the machine is checking
memory and I get the ok prompt - it appears to hang after memory checks.

I am by no means an expert at Sun hardware, but I have tried the Stop-A
approach and even the Stop-N, but the machine still hangs after checking the
memory. If anyone has seen this before or if anyone has any suggestions to
this it would be greatly appreciated. I am stumped.

Thank you in advance for the help,

AJ Schroeder

"Schroeder, AJ" <aaron.schroeder-no-spam@tmscomputers.com> wrote in message
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> Hello group,
>
> I have an interesting one here. I have an Ultra 30 here as a test machine.
> I swapped hard drives and loaded Solaris 10. Ever since I swapped hard
> drives the Ultra 30 it has been doing some strange things.
>
> When I power the machine on with the keyboard, it gives the appearance
> that it will boot, I am greeted with the open boot (ver. 3.25) screen and
> the machine begins to init the memory - when that completes, it says
> something about boot device "boot file and args:" then the machine hangs.
> I cannot do anything with the keyboard (i.e. Stop-A) - all I can do is
> power off the computer. Speaking of Stop-A, I can hit that when the
> machine is checking memory and I get the ok prompt - it appears to hang
> after memory checks.
>
> I am by no means an expert at Sun hardware, but I have tried the Stop-A
> approach and even the Stop-N, but the machine still hangs after checking
> the memory. If anyone has seen this before or if anyone has any
> suggestions to this it would be greatly appreciated. I am stumped.
>
> Thank you in advance for the help,
>
> AJ Schroeder
>

I know, I know, replying to oneself is bad karma... but after looking at
other articles on google groups, I set diag-levels to maximum and then
hooked up my pee cee to the sun box. It appears to be memory related as the
memory tests kept running into a snag and then looping - for about 12 hours
and then I re-seated my memory modules and it boots!

Of course now I get machine checks - so I am off to resolve that issue now.