Random Boot Failures
Ok. I have an Ultra 10 that randomly fails on boot. After working with the system for a few days, here is what I know.
When the system is booting up without any intervention, the messages on the screen are:
Initializing Memory
Boot device : disk Files and args :
Sometimes it boots up, sometimes it doesn't. When it fails to boot, there is just a black box (single character size) directly beneath the B in Boot.
However, if I do a Stop-A from the console and type in the command "boot disk", the messages are:
Initializing Memory
Boot device : /pci.... Files and args:
The ... represents the complete path to the disk drive.This never fails to boot and the system comes up correctly. Shutdown works just fine because the filesystems sync and close out properly. I've never had to fsck a partition.
Anyone have any clue as to what the problem is? I thought at first that it might be a bad alias but I'm using that alias in my own boot command and it works properly. Any thoughts would be appreciated. If you need any additional information, please let me know.
