{"id":39,"date":"2006-04-19T20:05:22","date_gmt":"2006-04-19T19:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/2006\/04\/19\/aftermath\/"},"modified":"2006-08-08T19:27:14","modified_gmt":"2006-08-08T18:27:14","slug":"aftermath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/?p=39","title":{"rendered":"Aftermath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happily I can report that my two Sun V880 servers are now running again. I discovered early this morning that the reason I couldn&#8217;t boot from DVD is that the Toshiba DVD drives on these servers have a firmware bug which means they cannot read 2k sectors. So I had to spend some time downloading the Solaris 10 CD image. So if anyone is interested in the Solaris equivalent of booting from a rescue disk here it is.<\/p>\n<p>At the OpenBoot prompt (you may have to send BREAK to the boot process to get the prompt which on minicom is CtrlA-f) type:<\/p>\n<p><strong>boot cdrom -s<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>and wait for what seems like an eternity while it boots up. You are then free to mount filesystems and fsck things to your hearts content.<\/p>\n<p>Of course once I had the Sun boxes up and running we discovered that the Origin300 cluster was completely dead. The PROM has lost all it&#8217;s hardware info.<\/p>\n<p>Current Mood: fatalistic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happily I can report that my two Sun V880 servers are now running again. I discovered early this morning that the reason I couldn&#8217;t boot from DVD is that the Toshiba DVD drives on these servers have a firmware bug which means they cannot read 2k sectors. So I had to spend some time downloading &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/?p=39\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Aftermath<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sysadmin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}