Open Boot device issue

From: Tom Riemer (tmriemer@gmail.com)
Date: Tue Sep 19 2006 - 13:17:25 EDT


Sun Managers,

We have a 4500 with OpenBoot 3.2.29. When we attempt to boot the
server, it tries to boot from disk1 not disk2, but explictly
specifying disk2 on the command line works as expected. We have no
idea why we are seeing this behavior, and we need to resolve the issue
beyond simply getting the server to boot.

Open boot prom settings below:

boot-device=disk2
boot-command=boot
diag-device=/sbus@3,0/SUNW,fas@3,8800000/sd@1,0
diag-switch?=false
auto-boot?=true
use-nvramrc?=false

devalias as follows:

{0} ok devalias

disk /sbus@3,0/SUNW,fas@3,8800000/sd@0,0
diskbrd /sbus@3,0/SUNW,fas@3,8800000/sd@a,0
diskisp /sbus@3,0/QLGC,isp@0,10000/sd@0,0
net /sbus@3,0/SUNW,hme@3,8c00000
cdrom /sbus@3,0/SUNW,fas@3,8800000/sd@6,0:f
tape /sbus@3,0/SUNW,fas@3,8800000/st@4,0
scsi /sbus@3,0/SUNW,fas@3,8800000
disk0 /sbus@3,0/SUNW,fas@3,8800000/sd@0,0
disk1 /sbus@3,0/SUNW,fas@3,8800000/sd@1,0
disk2 /sbus@3,0/SUNW,fas@3,8800000/sd@2,0
disk3 /sbus@3,0/SUNW,fas@3,8800000/sd@3,0
disk4 /sbus@3,0/SUNW,fas@3,8800000/sd@4,0
disk5 /sbus@3,0/SUNW,fas@3,8800000/sd@5,0
tape0 /sbus@3,0/SUNW,fas@3,8800000/st@4,0
tape1 /sbus@3,0/SUNW,fas@3,8800000/st@5,0
ttya /central/fhc/zs@0,902000:a
ttyb /central/fhc/zs@0,902000:b
keyboard /central/fhc/zs@0,904000
keyboard! /central/fhc/zs@0,904000:forcemode

{0} ok boot

Boot device: /sbus@3,0/SUNW,fas@3,8800000/sd@1,0 File and args:

Can't open boot device

{0} ok boot disk2

Boot device: /sbus@3,0/SUNW,fas@3,8800000/sd@2,0 File and args:
Loading ufs-file-system package 1.4 04 Aug 1995 13:02:54.
FCode UFS Reader 1.10 96/10/15 00:57:29.
Loading: /platform/SUNW,Ultra-Enterprise/ufsboot
Loading: /platform/sun4u/ufsboot
SunOS Release 5.6 Version Generic_105181-19 [UNIX(R) System V Release 4.0]
Copyright (c) 1983-1997, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
configuring network interfaces: hme0 hme1.
...

Thank you,

--
Tom Riemer
tmriemer@gmail.com
-- 
Tom Riemer
tmriemer@gmail.com
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