Trouble installing Solaris 10 on Ultra 5!
Got this free U5 and just today I received a keyboard and mouse I had bought on eBay. So I went ahead and tried to install and didn't even know how to boot from CD (I am totally new to Sun hardware). So after googling a bit I have gotten as far as the point where after booting from CD and filling out all the necessary information like hostname locale etc,I select the standard disk layout without preserving data (thinking that this way a brand new drive layout will be created) and every time it seems like the installation begins but then upon reboot the system says that "the file loaded does not appear to be executable" and it just hangs at the ok prompt.
This workstation has 256 RAM and the cpu is a 360IIi,Openboot 3.25 and an IDE disk 8.4 Gb in size.
I am stumped at this point since I am actually pretty good when it comes to Windows and OS X but this hardware/software is totally new to me and at this point I need some concrete steps to resolve this and get it installed. Any help will be greatly appreciated!
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kansukee
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kansukeea] at [2007-11-27 10:52:44]
# 1
try stop + A and then type set-defaults .... then type boot...
it may have been set up to boot from a different source..
haroldkarl
# 2
Thank you,I will do that and let you know how it went. Also is there a way to recursively answer yes at any given prompt?I tried doing fsck on /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0 and when doing file system check it asks me to respond whether I want to clear "partially allocated inodes" and there seems to be hundreds of those_imagine typing yes+enter at every one of those prompts...
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kansukee
# 3
do <fsck -y> to get all upcomming questions get automatically answered with "yes"
greets, jenny
************************
the sweater of a woman fits perfect,
when the men gasp for air. ;-)
# 4
Thank you,jenny. So it works the same way as OS X,then. Now I am again attempting to install and so far I have specified host name,ip addres and default route,set it to no kerberos,no remote services enabled,country,locale etc also have been set. I specified the default install;then it went into initializing system,loaded media and after a while I get the license screen,I select to install entire distribution after which I am presented with a screen asking me to identify the disk where I wish to install.
There is only one disk that I see ( c0t0d0) and if I press F4 to customize I am given the choice of selecting a boot device as follows :
Original boot disk:
[ ] c0t0d0s0
[ ] c0t0d0s1
[ ] c0t0d0s2
[ ] c0t0d0s3
[ ] c0t0d0s4
[ ] c0t0d0s5
[ ] c0t0d0s6
[ ] c0t0d0s7
[ x ] Any of the above
I think this is where I am getting stuck.I sthere anything I need to do specifically at this point?I am going to leave the machine sitting at this screen for the time being. Thank you all for your help...
After a few minutes it rebooted all by itself and showed a scrolling screen fulls of errors and it seemed to have something about a memory DIMM_could this be bad memory after all?
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kansukee
# 5
why are you making it so hard? it only shows one probably because you only have one disk in the box... you will get to a screen to customize partitions...
if you have memory problems, then take the cover off and re-seat the memory.
haroldkarl
# 6
I understand perfectly about there being only one disk and all that but this was the first time that I could see any messages related to memory failure. So I removed the offending stick and this time was able to finish the installation with the only caveat being that now,even though there are three sticks left,the computer recognizes only 128 mb. So I bought a 512 mb kit and I will put a faster hard drive since right now it's running dog slow...
# 7
hi kansukee
you got four memory-slots, which are combined to two banks. these memory banks must be occupied complete. if one of the two slots is empty, the other one isn't recognized and only the complete bank is used.
the ultra5 can recognize maximally 128 M per Slot (and/or 256 M per bank).
greets, jenny
************************
the sweater of a woman fits perfect,
when the men gasp for air. ;-)
[edith_says:]
shame on me:
the U5 recognize naturally 256M-DIMM = 512 M per bank !
(have to go to get some coffee, ey)
[edith_is_silent]
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Jenny_S
# 8
Well here is the issue I am having now:
After reading and seeing for myself that ATA performance was far from good in these machines I went and bought a SCSI hard drive.I installed it and the installation started but upon reboot II got a trap 3e error.So I googled it and tried to run the installboot but whenever I run it I get a "file not found' error msg. I am typing "/usr/sbin/installboot /usr/platform/architecture/lib/fs/ufs/bootblk /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0s0" ,substituting sparc/SPARC (I did it both ways) where it says architecture. I tried it like "/usr/sbin/installboot /usr//lib/fs/ufs/bootblk /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0s0" and still no dice.
I know that /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0s0 is the correct slice since that is what I was able to fdisk,without errors.
Is there anything wrong I am doing,maybe a jumper setting on the drive that I need to set different?
Sometime this week I will get a nice Blade 750 which will hopefully be what I will be using permanently but I still want to fix this issue on this machine.Thanks everyone.
# 9
what scsi card are you using and are you using a terminator? and what drive are you using? you should just need to type "boot cdrom".... and you should just use "probe-scsi-all" to see the drive.
you shouldn't need to have any jumpers on the drive...
haroldkarl
# 10
I am using the SCSI card that came with the computer. I was able to install Solaris succesfully using another SCSI drive but that was too small (9.1 gb) and noisy so I got this one and I'm using the same cable so I don't think termination is the issue here.The drive itself is a 18.2 Gb Fujitsu,68 pin MAJ3182MP ultra wide scsi 3.The installation sees the drive fine and it does the partitioning;it's only after the first reboot during the install that it comes up with this error.
I think I need to write something different at this command:
/usr/sbin/installboot /usr/platform/architecture/lib/fs/ufs/bootblk
,substituting "platform" and "architecture" correct for something specific to this machine?if so,what exactly?
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kansukee
# 11
The "platform" directory should exist. The architecture is "sun4u".
# 12
Thanks,I am reloading and will try that as soon as it reboots!
# 13
It worked,in the sense that I still get the trap 3e error on reboot but this time the bootblk got installed and when I typed "boot" at the ok prompt it went ahead with the rest of the installation.So right now it's more of an annoyance than anything else...
