From: Kevin Boykin (kboykin@neteng.com)
Date: Thu Sep 04 2003 - 12:16:22 EDT
Hello Guru's,
The problem:
we have a T3+ at our disposal in the lab. It was previously used in an
unknown configuration/environment. We just want to reset it and
configure anew. The problem we have is that it constantly reboots. We
can "hit enter to cancel within 3 seconds" to stop the reboot and then
are presented with a "T3B-EP>" prompt, which I understand the T3B
portion to indicate the hostname. We've tried populating all drives
with new drives. Populating partial drives. Typing "reset" at the
T3B-EP> prompt. Setting up the mac address/hostname/ip in our jumpstart
server and the subsequent settings within the T3B-EP> "set" variables.
It's strange to me that the first banner after a new boot command reads
"T3B Release...", etc and then the "T3B-1 Starting POST..." and then
"T3B-EP Release..." after this it repeats ad nauseum.
I noticed what appears to be a "Release" variance from the first banner
and the the "T3B-EP" banner.
Any ideas?
Here is a snippet from a typical reboot cycle: (which I cancelled this
time)
T3B-EP>boot
Starting...
T3B Release 2.01.00 2002/03/22 18:35:03 (10.0.0.130)
Copyright (C) 1997-2001 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
All Rights Reserved.
Initializing software...
Found units: [u1-ctr]
Default master is u1
Starting Heartbeats...
Assigning Select IDs: u1(1)
Initializing system drivers...
Initializing XPT component...
Initializing QLCF component...
Initializing loop 1 ISP2200 ... firmware status = 3
Detected 10 FC-AL ports on loop 1
loop 1 TARGET_ID = 0x0 (ALPA = 0xef)
Initializing loop 2 ISP2200 ... firmware status = 3
Detected 10 FC-AL ports on loop 2
loop 2 TARGET_ID = 0x0 (ALPA = 0xef)
Initializing SVD services...
Detected data cache size in system: 1GB
Testing ISP2200... Passed
Testing ECC mechanism... Passed
Testing XOR functions and datapaths... Passed
Cold Boot detected; destructive tests OK...
Testing data cache memory... Passed
Initializing Cache Memory...
Starting timezone synchronization task...
Initializing system DB structure...
Initializing configuration...
Initializing port configuration...
T3B-1
Starting POST
.........
POST end
Starting...
T3B-EP Release 2.00 2001/06/22 16:07:00 (10.0.0.130)
Copyright (C) 1997-2001 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
All Rights Reserved.
Found units: [u1-ctr]
auto boot is enabled
hit the RETURN key within 3 seconds to cancel...Cancelled!
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