Hi,
I am having a problem with a Sun Netra T1 machine. The machine was purchased at an auction following the closing down of a .com and therefore I do not have access to any of the passwords for the machine.

The problem relates to similar previous postings such as "I lost my password" and "I can't boot from my cdrom". I have tried the solutions provided such as boot cdrom -s etc. with no success.

At the moment I have connected to the machine through the console port and can see the machine boot up correctly. After a minute or so the login prompt appears. The only services I can see that are running on the machine are ssh 2.4, sendmail (version unknown) and rpc. The gateway info is also displayed. I have tried default passwords but I presume the machine was just disconnected from the data center by liquidator. If I am correct the machine is running Solaris 7.

The machine only has a cdrom drive (no floppy) with two removable 18Gb scsi drives.

What I would ideally like to do is boot from a cdrom (solaris, linux or openbsd) and reinstall from there. I am not concerned about the data on the machine. I have tried "boot cdrom" from the ok prompt and it says "can't boot from cdrom" so something along those lines. It then continues to boot from the hard disks.

I realise that there is a patch that allows you to boot from cdrom, but the problem is I can't login to apply the patch.

Any ideas? Any help would be appreciated,

Thanks in advance,

Piero

Sun expects the cdrom to be at a fixed scsi address, that being 6. So when you issue a command boot cdrom, you are realling telling it to boot from the kernel found on scsi ID 6. Check the scsi ID of your cdrom drive. Also your nvram settings might have been altered to point to a different device. If checking the ID doesn't help, let us know more.

STOP+A

test-scsi in command prom

the cd-rom must have ID6 as target id (if cdrom is scsi)

If you can't booting or you can't alter in OpenBoot Prom

use final method

When you power on the system hold STOP+N

this will change the OpenBoot Prom to its default settings

Ji,
Tried "scsi test" and unfortunately I get a "Bus Fault".... doesn't sound too good. It kept displaying it until reboot.
In relattion to STOP+N, I am using a PC keyboard, do you know a terminal prog with that key as a menu item?

Just to see what's going on I tried "probe-scsi" and after reboot I captured the following:

============ Start ==============

Resetting ...

screen not found.
keyboard not found.
Keyboard not present. Using ttya for input and output.

Netra t1 (UltraSPARC-IIi 440MHz), No Keyboard
OpenBoot 3.10.24 ME, 512 MB memory installed, Serial #12727854.
Ethernet address 8:0:20:c2:36:2e, Host ID: 80c2362e.

Initializing Memory
Executing last command: probe-scsi
Primary UltraSCSI bus:
Target 0
Unit 0 Disk SEAGATE ST318203LSUN18G 034A
Target 1
Unit 0 Disk SEAGATE ST318203LSUN18G 034A

Boot device: disk File and args:
|
SunOS Release 5.6 Version Generic_105181-23 [UNIX(R) System V Release 4.0]
Copyright (c) 1983-1997, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
WARNING: No usable keyboard alias!
|WARNING: No usable keyboard alias!
configuring network interfaces: hme0hme1: No such device or address
ifconfig: SIOCGIFFLAGS: hme1: no such interface
hme1.
Hostname: trinidad
The / file system (/dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0) is being checked.
/dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0: 63766 files, 3994633 used, 12384473 free
/dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0: (47049 frags, 1542178 blocks, 0.2% fragmentation)
The system is coming up. Please wait.
add net default: gateway 192.168.2.1
starting rpc services: rpcbind keyserv done.
Setting netmask of hme0 to 255.255.255.0
Setting default interface for multicast: add net 224.0.0.0: gateway trinidad
syslog service starting.
Print services started.
bdconfig: no serial device configured. Run bdconfig interactively (no args).
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf: WARNING: dangerous write permissions
Oct 15 06:20:46 trinidad sendmail[199]: /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: WARNING: dangerous write permissions

volume management starting.
sshd2: SSH Secure Shell 2.4.0 (non-commercial version) on sparc-sun-solaris2.6
Oct 15 06:20:49 trinidad sshd2[233]: Listener created on port 22.

Oct 15 06:20:49 trinidad sshd2[238]: Daemon is running.

Sun Microsystems Inc. SunOS 5.6 Generic August 1997
The system is ready.

trinidad console login:

============ Stop ==============

Note how the cdrom isn't displayed under the UltraSCSI. Inside the machine the cdrom isn't connected to the same cable as the harddisks. Could it be an ide cdrom? If so, does this make a difference?

As a second test I tried to boot off an openbsd disk with "boot cdrom 2.8/sparc/bsd.rc" and received the following message (the cdrom spun for a while first):

============ Start ==============

Resetting ...

screen not found.
keyboard not found.
Keyboard not present. Using ttya for input and output.

Netra t1 (UltraSPARC-IIi 440MHz), No Keyboard
OpenBoot 3.10.24 ME, 512 MB memory installed, Serial #12727854.
Ethernet address 8:0:20:c2:36:2e, Host ID: 80c2362e.

Initializing Memory
Executing last command: boot cdrom 2.8/sparc/bsd.rd
Boot device: /pci@1f,0/pci@1/pci@1/ide@e/cdrom@2:f File and args: 2.8/sparc/bsd.rd
Fast Data Access MMU Miss
ok

============ Stop ==============

For some more information I used the "show-devs" command. I don't know if it shines any light on the problem:

============ Start ==============

ok show-devs
/SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIi@0,0
/pci@1f,0
/virtual-memory
/memory@0,0
/aliases
/options
/openprom
/chosen
/packages
/pci@1f,0/pci@1
/pci@1f,0/pci@1,1
/pci@1f,0/pci@1/pci@1
/pci@1f,0/pci@1/pci@1/ide@e
/pci@1f,0/pci@1/pci@1/ide@e/cdrom
/pci@1f,0/pci@1/pci@1/ide@e/disk
/pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/scsi@2
/pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/network@1,1
/pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ebus@1
/pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/scsi@2/tape
/pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/scsi@2/disk
/pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ebus@1/SUNW,lom@14,400000
/pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ebus@1/i2c@14,100000
/pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ebus@1/i2c@14,600000
/pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ebus@1/flashprom@10,800000
/pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ebus@1/flashprom@10,400000
/pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ebus@1/beeper@14,722000
/pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ebus@1/display7seg@14,200040
/pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ebus@1/watchdog@14,200000
/pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ebus@1/flashprom@10,0
/pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ebus@1/eeprom@14,0
/pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ebus@1/fdthree@14,3203f0
/pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ebus@1/ecpp@14,340278
/pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ebus@1/su@14,3602f8
/pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ebus@1/su@14,3803f8
/pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ebus@1/SUNW,pll@14,504000
/pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ebus@1/power@14,724000
/pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ebus@1/auxio@14,726000
/pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ebus@1/i2c@14,600000/gpio@0,72
/pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ebus@1/i2c@14,600000/gpio@0,70
/pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ebus@1/i2c@14,600000/adc@0,9e
/openprom/client-services
/packages/sun-keyboard
/packages/SUNW,builtin-drivers
/packages/cdfs
/packages/ufs-file-system
/packages/disk-label
/packages/obp-tftp
/packages/deblocker
/packages/terminal-emulator
ok

============ Stop ==============

I hope this is a bit more helpful, thanks again for your help,

Piero

Try this: isainfo -v
or
kdmconfig ---then the networked problem and address