[XCSSA] Anyone have experience with a Sun V880?

[Dennis Myhand]

Uh...I think you meant KC, but thanks for the thought.  Peace, Dennis 
now in Edna

John J Hough wrote:
> Dennis,
> 
>  Can you get to the ok prompt?
> 
>  If it has a Sun keyboard attached when it starts looping hit L1-A or
>  Stop-A depending on the version of keyboard.
> 
>  At the ok prompt do a printenv and check if diag-switch? is set to
>  true.  If it is turn it off:
> setenv diag-switch? false. 
> 
>  It also will be useful to set auto-boot? to false until you know where
>  the device is that you installed {Open}Solaris on.
> 
>  Then have a look at the device tree with show-devs to see if you can
>  your hard disk. 
> 
>  If you do, copy down the path to the device, then try:
> 
> boot _the_device_path_
> 
>  You have to include the slice of the disk you are booting from.  A slice
>  is like a partition but not the same.  On Sun Intel/AMD boxes you have to
>  partition first and then the slices are inside of a partition.  Anyway
>  you address them differently depending on the version of OpenBoot.  It
>  might be something like sd at 3,0 indicating the first slice.
> 
>  You might also do a probe-scsi-all and see if your disk turns up.
>  
>  Once you find your boot disk create an alias for it with nvalias so you
>  don't have to type the path again and then set the boot-device to your
>  alias, and then you can turn auto-boot? true again.
> 
> john
> 
> Dennis Myhand wrote:
>> I am no rising Sun but I would say that they never intended for the 
>> machine to boot from the tape drive so there is probably nothing in the 
>> firmware that would tell the machine to boot from there, no matter what 
>> the install says to do.  Probably, without the Fibre Channel HDs, it 
>> ain't gonna boot unless you can figure a way to modify the firmware, or 
>> whatever Sun has used in place of BIOS.  JMTC, YMMV, UAOR, VWP, DTTAH, 
>> PEACE, Dennis in Victoria
>>
>> KC wrote:
>>   
>>> I have this delicious behemoth taking up residence in my garage... A friend saved it from the crusher when I couldn't afford to and then didn't have a home for it... 
>>>
>>> Spent a few nights working on it. The only thing it doesn't have is the hard drives. FC. Don't have any lying around, and I don't have the caddies, either. Have lots of SCSIs lying around. Hooked up a SCSI drive to the ribbon that Sun intended for a tape drive, instead. Ran through the Solaris 10 install, looked successful, but I speak bash, not Solaris.
>>>
>>> It installs, but when it tells me to reboot, it just wont reboot. Goes back to Diags and same loops.
>>>
>>> I'm starting to wonder if Sun intentionally made it so that it would not boot from a non-Sun hard drive... or a hard drive that is not in the original FC slots.
>>>
>>> Just, off the cuff, anyone know Sun well enough to say if that sounds credible?
>>>
>>> I'm sure I will keep digging on it...
>>>
>>> kc
>>>
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Dennis Myhand
Edna High School
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