Sun Ultra 5 / Newbie Question
Hello. I am a student preparing for a career in Deskside Support. I recently purchased a Sun Ultra 5, so I could increase my experience with UNIX / LINUX. When the system powers up it goes through what seems to be a normal boot process and then keeps repeating the below error:
SUN, hme0 : No response from Ethernet network : Link down -- cable problem?
I am assuming that it is looking for some sort of a network connection. It is not on nor will it be on a network. I also have a copy of Ubuntu on the way, as I have heard this is a good source of LINUX experience. Does the forum have any thoughts or comments on what the error is saying and how to get rid of it?
2WheelsOver4
# 1
Are you just trying to run an old OS? You should install your own.
During the setup, it will ask about networking. You don't have to configure it.
The current OS is configured to look for an hme connection, and it may be configured to wait for certain network processes to appear (like an NIS server) before continuing to boot. Such things can be changed, but for your purposes, it may be simpler to reinstall.
You could also boot to single-user and run sys-unconfig to clear out the current network settings and create new ones at the next boot. You could configure it without networking that way. But I wouldn't do that unless I had some good reason to maintain the existing OS, not something I'd do with a purchased machine.
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Darren
# 2
Hello.
Looks like the Ultra5 is trying to boot from network.
Does the message appear before the OS is booted (no "SunOS ..." message)?
If yes: Your Ultra 5 is configured to boot from network. Download the Solaris OS (Sol 9: minimum 3 CD images, full version: 6 CD images), burn the ISO images to CD and boot from CD.
To boot from CD you must get to the OpenBoot prompt (BIOS of Sun Workstations). On the left side of a Sun keyboard you have a "Stop" key. Press Stop-A (the same way you would press Shift-A) to get to the OpenBoot prompt. You'll see "ok".
Type "boot cdrom" to boot from CD-Rom (once).
Type "boot disk" to boot from the hard disk (once).
You may use the following commands to switch the booting device from network booting to disk booting permanently:
setenv boot-device disk
setenv auto-boot? true
reboot
(Do not forget the question mark after "auto-boot".)
Martin
# 8
Here is some additional informaiton that I was able to capture from the boot process.
(Here is what I get when I boot.)
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SUN Ultra 5/10 UPA/PCI (Ultra SPARC-11 333mhz), Keyboard present OpenBoot 3.15, 256 memory installed, Serial #********. Ethernet Address 8:0:26: a4:z2:1F Host ID....
Boot Device: disk File and Args
Sun OS Release 5.9 Version Generic ID 112233-48 64bit
Copyright 1992-2003 Sun Microsystems, inc. All rights reserved. Use is subject to terms.
Configuring IPv4 Interface hme0.
Configuring IPv6 Interface hme0.
Hostname lucky
The / file system (/dev/rdsk/...........) is being checked.
[the periods are place holders as I cant read the picture I took when it was going on.]
SUNF,hme0 no response from the Eithernet network & link down -- Cable Problem?
SUNF,hme0 no response from the Eithernet network & link down -- Cable Problem?
SUNF,hme0 no response from the Eithernet network & link down -- Cable Problem?
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It keeps repeating. I think it has something to do with it looking for booth instructions off the network it was on. I also feel one of the boot proms need reseting. It never gets to root / UNIX prompt. I can STOP -A and get to OpenBoot prompt and SETENV / PRINTENV and run baisc diag but no more.
When I reboot from OpenBoot with the "boot cdrom" command here is what I get.
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SUN Ultra 5/10 UPA/PCI (Ultra SPARC-11 333mhz), Keyboard present
OpenBoot 3.15, 256 memory installed, Serial #********.
Ethernet Address 8:0:26: a4:z2:1F Host ID....
Boot device /pci@1f,0/pci@1,i/*****/cdrom@2,0:f File and args
Evaluating boot cdrom
Can't open boot device
Boot device: disk File and args
SunOS Release 5.9 Version Generic_112233-01 64-bit
Copyright 1993-2003 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
Use is subject to terms.
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