The harddrive was dead. Not just slightly dead, but fully dead. Two things I learned from the field engineer that showed up to replace it: * to boot off the CD-ROM, use "boot cdrom -s" and you'll wind up in single user mode * At the ok prompt, "probe-ide" tells you info about the ide devices. (Just like probe-scsi.) If your harddrive was kaput like mine, it won't even tell you about the other device in the chain, because the bad device stops it from spinning up, too. Call 1(800)usa-4sun and hit one for warranty calls, like this one. (US only) Thanks to Paul Ricca and Ronald Loftin for their help. -- Andrew Diederich -----Original Message----- I have a Sun ultra 10 (Ultrasparc-IIi, 440 MHz) that will no longer boot off its hard drive. I'm beginning to suspect it's a harddrive problem, since over the last year I'll walk in in the morning, and see it trying to boot off the network. Nothing is ever in the system logs. When I try to cold boot it, it goes right to Boot device: net. So then I Stop-A, and at the ok prompt type "boot disk0:h", or "boot disk:h". (I've tried both.) I then see: Boot device: /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3/disk@0,0:h File and args: Can't open boot device In the past I've tried this several times, and finally it'll boot, but that's not working this time. Has anyone seen this before, or have a solution? I'll summarize. -- Andrew Diederich andrew@netdelivery.com _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Mon Jul 16 23:35:10 2001
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