This file is basically an overview of what I did to get my Sun Enterprise 4500 and StorEDGE A5100 booted up and running. this was my first time playing with a Sun server, so I'm sure there are some mistakes. Derek Crudgington - dacrud@gmail.com ------------------------------------------------- turn the key to -^- which means it will always do extended diags on boot up in this position EXTRA NOTES: turning the key to the lock position turns off STOP-A on the keyboard turning the key to the | position powers it on (normal position, runs diags set by diag-level in OBP) if keyboard is plugged in and its set to extended diags position, diags will print to serial then monitor will turn on when its done. i used teraterm to connect com2 on my regular PC to serial PORT A on the back of e4500 booted the e4500, didnt get any output past the POST, it stopped past the monitor unplugged the keyboard, tryed again and it went further this time to: Setting up Network Link and Speed. Using Onboard Transceiver - Timeout waiting for AutoNegotiation Status to be updated. Timeout reading Link status. Check cable and try again. Timeout waiting for AutoNegotiation Status to be updated. Timeout reading Link status. Check cable and try again. Timeout waiting for AutoNegotiation Status to be updated. Timeout reading Link status. Check cable and try again. AutoNegotiation Timeout. Check Cable or Contact your System Administrator. Link Down. Network Link Setup Failed. Please Check Cable and Try Again. i plugged in an ethernet cable then it did: Timeout waiting for ARP/RARP packet Timeout waiting for ARP/RARP packet Timeout waiting for ARP/RARP packet this means it tryed to boot to the network hit ALT+B (the key through teraterm to send a STOP-A) to bring to OK prompt then i did: {0} ok set-defaults probe-fcal-all to probe the array {0} ok probe-fcal-all /sbus@2,0/SUNW,socal@d,10000/sf@1,0 Port#1 received soc-status=14 Port#1 received soc-status=11 Port#1 received soc-status=14 loop 1 is ONLINE WWN 2006080020acf3bb Loopid 2 WWN 50800200 2b991 Loopid 29 report_luns key 5 asc 20 ascq 0 Device type d SUN SENA 1.09P WWN 210000203723015c Loopid 3a report_luns key 5 asc 20 ascq 0 Disk SEAGATE ST19171FCSUN9.0G14789924721382 WWN 21000020370ede66 Loopid 39 report_luns key 5 asc 20 ascq 0 Disk SEAGATE ST19171FCSUN9.0G7F7E9824V59063 WWN 210000203714ef36 Loopid 36 report_luns key 5 asc 20 ascq 0 Disk SEAGATE ST19171FCSUN9.0G137E9843X40447 WWN 21000020370bbfd9 Loopid 35 report_luns key 5 asc 20 ascq 0 Disk SEAGATE ST19171FCSUN9.0G147E9744M69576 WWN 210000203716830d Loopid 34 report_luns key 5 asc 20 ascq 0 Disk SEAGATE ST19171FCSUN9.0G7D7E9847X75589 WWN 2100002037146891 Loopid 33 report_luns key 5 asc 20 ascq 0 Disk SEAGATE ST19171FCSUN9.0G7D7E9838V72162 WWN 21000020370cf8dc Loopid 32 report_luns key 5 asc 20 ascq 0 Disk SEAGATE ST19171FCSUN9.0G7D7E9807R47708 WWN 50800200 2b992 Loopid 1 report_luns key 5 asc 20 ascq 0 Device type d SUN SENA 1.09P WWN 2100002037139837 Loopid 25 report_luns key 5 asc 20 ascq 0 Disk SEAGATE ST19171FCSUN9.0G147E9829W79553 WWN 210000203713bb84 Loopid 23 report_luns key 5 asc 20 ascq 0 Disk SEAGATE ST19171FCSUN9.0G7F7E9829W82660 WWN 21000020371413ba Loopid 1f report_luns key 5 asc 20 ascq 0 Disk SEAGATE ST19171FCSUN9.0G7D7E9834X07664 WWN 2100002037141b20 Loopid 1e report_luns key 5 asc 20 ascq 0 Disk SEAGATE ST19171FCSUN9.0G137E9834X13260 WWN 2100002037169962 Loopid 1d report_luns key 5 asc 20 ascq 0 Disk SEAGATE ST19171FCSUN9.0G7D7E9848X81357 WWN 21000020371698e4 Loopid 1b report_luns key 5 asc 20 ascq 0 Disk SEAGATE ST19171FCSUN9.0G7D7E9848X81143 WWN 2100002037099118 Loopid 18 report_luns key 5 asc 20 ascq 0 Disk SEAGATE ST19171FCSUN9.0G6B7E9908Y35533 /sbus@2,0/SUNW,socal@d,10000/sf@0,0 Port#1 received soc-status=14 loop 0 is OFFLINE Port#1 received soc-status=14 Port#1 received soc-status=11 Port#1 received soc-status=14 loop 0 is OFFLINE {0} ok help i did probe-scsi-all just to see what else it would pick up: {0} ok probe-scsi-all /sbus@3,0/SUNW,fas@3,8800000 Target 6 Unit 0 Removable Read Only device TOSHIBA XM6201TASUN32XCD110312/12/97 /sbus@2,0/QLGC,isp@2,10000 /sbus@2,0/SUNW,fas@1,8800000 {0} ok it found my CDROM, now ready to install solaris {0} ok boot cdrom going through the cdrom process i got to my disk selection and it showed my 14 drives: c0t96d0 c0t97d0 c0t98d0 c0t99d0 c0t100d0 c0t101d0 c0t102d0 c0t112d0 c0t113d0 c0t114d0 c0t115d0 c0t116d0 c0t117d0 c0t118d0 i wanted to find out which drives were on the front and which ones were on the back so i ALT+B through teraterm (which is really STOP+A) and it brought me back to OK prompt: {0} ok boot cdrom -s boot off cdrom into single user mode, then when it booted up i did format command and selected the disks and used the analyze tool to analyze each disk and look for blinking LED lights on the array each time. this resulted in my drives being split up like: c0t96d0 c0t97d0 c0t98d0 FRONT c0t99d0 c0t100d0 c0t101d0 c0t102d0 c0t112d0 c0t113d0 c0t114d0 BACK c0t115d0 c0t116d0 c0t117d0 c0t118d0 so i decided to install the operating system on the first two front drives c0t96d0 and c0t97d0 then use c0t98d0 and c0t99d0 for mirror of the operating system (after i install i will set that up with Sun Volume Manager) so i did the "auto layout" of the disks and let it automatically configure the partitions and sizes and i liked the way they looked so i continued with install the machine rebooted for the install and it kept booting from the network card again (this is because the default boot is set to it in obp, which i will fix later) i kept trying {0} ok boot disk and {0} ok boot /sbus@2,0/SUNW,socal@d,10000/sf@1,0 to try and boot off the array which did nothing. then i found that with the fcal device i need to specify {0} ok boot /sbus@2,0/SUNW,socal@d,10000/sf@1,0/ssd@wsomething so i booted diskless single user, # ls -l /dev/dsk/c0t96d0s2 # lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 74 May 11 14:38 /dev/dsk/c0t96d0s2 -> ../../devices/sbus@2,0/SUNW,socal@d,10000/sf@1,0/ssd@w210000203723015c,0:c this gave me what i needed but it ended with :c which means slice2 and that is not right, i needed the root slice for reference: :a=s0 :b=s1 :c=s2 and so on so i modified my line and just put :a on the end for the root slice s0 {0} ok boot /sbus@2,0/SUNW,socal@d,10000/sf@1,0/ssd@w210000203723015c,0:a this booted right up and i continued with the install. during the last reboot my machine booted back to obp and tryed to boot network again, this is where i fixed it to boot off the array every time i set an nvalias named "fcal" to point to "/sbus@2,0/SUNW,socal@d,10000/sf@1,0/ssd@w210000203723015c,0:a" so if i wanted i could just type "boot fcal" and it would boot to that device nvaliases are a way so you can define a name for a device instead of having to use a whole path everytime {0} ok nvalias fcal /sbus@2,0/SUNW,socal@d,10000/sf@1,0/ssd@w210000203723015c,0:a set the boot device to fcal and the diag device {0} ok setenv boot-device fcal {0} ok setenv daig-device fcal