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PostPosted: Thu May 05, 2005 5:06 am    Post subject: Gentoo on a sparcServer 10 Reply with quote

Hello all, I just got a sparcServer 10 with 336Mb of ram and running one processor. The questions I've got are these: 1) I only have an external CD-ROM for it. It's connecting to the SCSI port on the back of the machine but I'm not sure what number to make it. 2) I'm thinking of using the experimental 32bit live CD, how do I get this thing to boot from the CD ? thanks.
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PostPosted: Thu May 05, 2005 8:50 am    Post subject: Re: Gentoo on a sparcServer 10 Reply with quote

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1) I only have an external CD-ROM for it. It's connecting to the SCSI port on the back of the machine but I'm not sure what number to make it. 2) I'm thinking of using the experimental 32bit live CD, how do I get this thing to boot from the CD ? thanks.


ok> probe-scsi-all

then you can create an alias (with devalias) naming the device for example "cdromext"

ok> boot cdromext
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PostPosted: Thu May 05, 2005 9:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

the major problem is that I can't get into the command prompt. I got this server when a department here at the university was upgrading and it seems like it's looking for a server or something because it hangs when it's booting up the rpc stuff it gives me an error where it says something like "le0: Cannot find hub network cable unplugged?" and keeps on repeating it. it's an entire chicken and egg sort of thing. I need to get on the command prompt to be able to boot from scsci but I can't get on command prompt unless I'm booting from scsci... unless there's someway of circumventing the entire thing. oh yeah, it's running solaris 5.9. is there someway I could make a floppy to boot off of?
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PostPosted: Thu May 05, 2005 10:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Most likely the network card choking on the auto-sensing of a 10/100 hub/switch that it is plugged into. I had to dig up an ancient 10baseT hub, plug the Sparc into it and plug that into the modern switch. I'd be curious if there is a simpler solution but hey, it works :)

Edit: And while technically probably correct, has nothing to do with your problem, yet anyway. Stop-A when it's initializing memory should get to to a boot prompt.
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PostPosted: Fri May 06, 2005 12:32 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks, I'll try that. I've never messed with a sun machine before (except through the terminal at school) so I don't know any of the quick commands.
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PostPosted: Mon May 09, 2005 10:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

maybe it is trying to boot from the net, type stop+a and then you'll be able to reach the obp prompt. Eventually you can do a

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ok setenv auto-boot? false


to avoid the autoboot

home this helps
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 05, 2005 9:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

alright, I've been able to mess around with this some more. I'm trying to figure out how to reset the root password from the CD, When I boot into the CD in Single User Mode I can't make any changes to the file system because it's Read-Only. Any suggestions?
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 07, 2005 2:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

umount the partition you are trying to change then remount it to get it mounted read/write.
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