5.2.1 mini-ISO fails to boot on U450

[j...@ida.interface-business.de]

Hiya,

I've got that old U450 system sitting in a corner here. Well, it's
got only 256 MB of RAM anymore, but with 4 CPUs (296 MHz) and a dozen
disks, I thought it might be an interesting textbox for
FreeBSD/sparc64.

Unfortunately, I cannot get the mini-ISO CD to boot. In general,
there's only little output at all on the serial console, the most I
could get was:

Fatal SCSI error at script address 8 Illegal instruction
Drive not ready

When connecting a keyboard and VGA monitor, I see a few more lines
from the loader (why don't I see them on the serial console?), but
then again the same kind of fatal SCSI error.

Is there any chance to avoid that error? Alternatevily, does someone
have a checklist for a Sun boot/install server? Last time I tried
creating one on a non-Solaris box, I only vaguely remember there were
a number of things to remember (besides the obvious ones like setting
up RARPD and such). Is rpc.bootparamd required to netboot a FreeBSD
machine?

--
J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer
joerg_...@interface-systems.de http://www.interface-systems.de/~j/
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[jason-fre...@freebsd.org]

On 20040415 1208, Joerg Wunsch wrote:
>
> Fatal SCSI error at script address 8 Illegal instruction
> Drive not ready

Sounds like you have a dead disk.

Open the door on the front of the server and check the status LEDs next to
each disk.

If one is blinking, pop that disk out, and try again.

Jason

(My instructions are based on my experience with E450's which I believe are
very similar)