new_guy wrote:
Hi guys.
I'm helping a friend install 4.4 (Sparc64) on this SunFire V120 he got for
free :) It's a very nice box with a working Solaris install. It boots the
install.iso and proceeds to install, but when we get to the point of
selecting a root disk... the only option we have is [done]. OpenBSD seems to
detect both drives (sd0 and sd1) but not place them in the list to select
from.
Sometime the server doesn't detect the drive properly and needs to be
re-initialize.
Just do this from the console and then try again.
LOM to console and back #.
init 0
ok setenv auto-boot? false
#depending on which Hardware and OBP Version you are running it is
either or ( I do both in order to be sure on my SunFire)
ok reset
ok reset-all
when the OBP is back you can run eg
ok probe-scsi-all
If that was a V100 instead, you would do the
ok probe-ide-all instead.
Also, the OK, you don;'t type it, it's on the prompt. (;>
These boxes run very well, I have almost 200 of them all running for
years and I love them sop much, I can't convince myself to replace them
at all!
The only issue I have, and it's been there for years is the CD-Rom give
issues at time, so I just unplug them after the install and a very minor
thing that really doesn't do much, but there is a off by one in the USB
code somewhere that makes the kernel try to reinitialize the USB all the
time and will have the code rerun. For this, I simply disable the USB at
the boot -c prompt and it's been great.
You can see it by the load on the server always being 1.10, to 1.40
because of the USB code there, when you just disable it, it's stable at
0.03 to 0.07.
One out of 10 you will reboot the server if you don't disable the USB
and it will run normally, meaning, load at 0.04 or so with the USB
enable. But this is much more viseable ont he V100 then the V120 however.
Get it up and you will have many more years of pleasure with this box.
Takes no power at all, run nice, reliable and stable. Just a bit noisy
for home stuff, but you can replace the fan with quiet one if you like.
Just the one in the power supply is harder to replace.
That's about it.
Best,
Daniel
