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Sevan / Venture37 | 1 Apr 2004 01:03
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Dead Ultra 2

hi
I've aquired a Ultra2 which seems to be dead. the unit has no frambuffer & 
I've been connecting via a null modem cable.
the only output I seem to get from the box is a - sign & nothing else. I 
have reseated the memory, moved the memory in different banks, tried new 
memory in the system & still nothing, I have also tried holding down StopN & 
stopD neither have made any difference.
I've also tried placing the cpu in another slot with no luck. I've gone over 
the system handbook & verified the jumper settings are correct aswell. I 
have carried out all of the above whilst running the system bare (no drives 
connected, alll cards removed, just mobo, ram & cpu in place).
Is It safe to say that the system is completely FUBAR'd?

Regards

Sevan / Venture37

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Sheldon T. Hall | 1 Apr 2004 04:01

RE: Dead Ultra 2

Sevan / Venture37 says ...

> I've aquired a Ultra2 which seems to be dead. the unit has no
> frambuffer &
> I've been connecting via a null modem cable.
> the only output I seem to get from the box is a - sign & nothing else. I
> have reseated the memory, moved the memory in different banks, tried new
> memory in the system & still nothing, I have also tried holding
> down StopN &
> stopD neither have made any difference.
> I've also tried placing the cpu in another slot with no luck.
> I've gone over
> the system handbook & verified the jumper settings are correct aswell. I
> have carried out all of the above whilst running the system bare
> (no drives
> connected, alll cards removed, just mobo, ram & cpu in place).
> Is It safe to say that the system is completely FUBAR'd?

Since "Stop-N" is pretty rare on non-Sun keyboards ... Do you have a
keyboard hooked to the Ultra?  If so, it is probably trying to send its
video output to the framebuffer ... which in your case you have not got.

Try booting it up with no keyboard, and just a serial terminal or eumlator
using a proper cable and (ossibly) a null modem.

-Shel
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Peter Stokes | 1 Apr 2004 08:59
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Re: U60 won't boot 64bit Solaris...

Hi

I thought the 64 bit kernel was the default for > 200Mhz CPU's from a
clean load?

Peter

On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 21:23, Gereon 'Jerry' Stein wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I finally bought an Ultra 60 and installed the following hardware:
> 
> - 1280 Megs of RAM
> - 2* 501-4849-03 300MHz CPU Module
> - 2* Seagate Barracuda 50GB SCA disk
> - Elite 3D UPA graphics board
> - SunSwift PCI additional I/O Board
> 
> I was able to install Solaris 9 just fine, also upgrade Firmware of the 
> box to 3.31, but discovered Solaris 9 would only boot in 32bit mode!
> 
> Any attempt to "force" it to load 64bit OS leads to:
> 
> krtld:error during initial load/link phase
> panic - boot: exitto64 returned from client program
> 
> I exchanged virtually everything: CPUs, RAM, disks, graphics boards, 
> I/O-board - tried removing hardware to a minimum setup -> same effect.
> 
> Following hints I found elsewhere, I even tried _downgrading_ the
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Gereon 'Jerry' Stein | 1 Apr 2004 11:38
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Re: U60 won't boot 64bit Solaris...

That is exactly what I'm worrying about: I did an entirely clean and
fresh install of Solaris 9 (just as I did on an Ultra2 I use in parallel):

The Ultra2 had 64bit as default after the load, the Ultra60 didn't.

Both were tested with the exact same two 501-4849 Rev. 03 CPUs, which
are definitely supported according to Sun.

I did a second load - and a comparison load of Solaris 8 - just to make
sure nothing went unnoticed with the installation (like a file failing
to install or something) - U2 = 64bits, U60 = 32bits. This is really
confusing. Looks like the install routing does not even _attempt_ to
make 64bit the default. The 64bit kernel on the U60 would only appear if
I manually install the respective package (or patch 112233-11 for that
matter). I mean, the U60, including what I put into it, is not that new
a piece of hardware that there should be _any_ support issues with Sol.9.

I am receiving another U60 today, to see whether that will make any
difference. After all, from the hardware side that was the only part I
couldn't swap so far ;)

Thanks,

Jerry

Peter Stokes wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I thought the 64 bit kernel was the default for > 200Mhz CPU's from a
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Gereon 'Jerry' Stein | 1 Apr 2004 11:38
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Re: U60 won't boot 64bit Solaris...

Greg wrote:

> Gereon 'Jerry' Stein wrote:
> 
>> Any attempt to "force" it to load 64bit OS leads to:
> 
> 
> How are you "forcing" it?
> 
Load the missing 64bit kernel into /platform/sun4u/kernel/sparcv9 (esp.
using patch 112233-11)

After _n_ installs, the default installation routing loads all of the
64bit modules except the kernel itself.

>> krtld:error during initial load/link phase
>> panic - boot: exitto64 returned from client program
> 
> 
> That looks like trying to boot the wrong path.  To force a 64-bit boot 
> you boot from the file "kernel/sparcv9/unix", no leading slash.
> 
The machine tries this automagically if the respective kernel files are
present in the /platform/sun4u/kernel/sparcv9 directory. I need to
remove these again (by booting an install CD and mounting the root fs)
to get the machine back to 32bits

> BTW, the message was simply letting you know that either a file could 
> not be found or a symbol was missing, swapping hardware was unnecessary.
>
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Gereon 'Jerry' Stein | 1 Apr 2004 11:38
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Re: U60 won't boot 64bit Solaris...

Dale Ghent wrote:

> On Mar 30, 2004, at 3:23 PM, Gereon 'Jerry' Stein wrote:
> 
>> Any attempt to "force" it to load 64bit OS leads to:
>>
>> krtld:error during initial load/link phase
>> panic - boot: exitto64 returned from client program
> 
> 
> What do you have boot-file set to in the NVRAM?
> 
boot-file is set to "" (default as recommended in another Sun forum
thread I found in this concern).

That's positively not the cause of the issue.

Thanks,

Jerry

> /dale
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Grindell, Joan M. | 1 Apr 2004 21:14
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SAR: limit the number of days daily sar output is kept

We are using SAR to collect data about the system.  At midnight the binary
data is copied to
text output and a new sar binary dataset is started (i.e.  sa23 (3/23) is
written to sar23 and a new dataset sa24 (3/24) is started).

We keep these files for about 8 days and rotate them off.

My question is:

	I can't find what process deletes the earlest sa.. and sar.. files.

	We want to extend the collection days to 30 but i don't know how
they are getting
	deleted.

many thanks
Joan
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Dale Ghent | 1 Apr 2004 21:25
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Re: SAR: limit the number of days daily sar output is kept

On Apr 1, 2004, at 2:14 PM, Grindell, Joan M. wrote:

> My question is:
>
> 	I can't find what process deletes the earlest sa.. and sar.. files.
>
> 	We want to extend the collection days to 30 but i don't know how
> they are getting
> 	deleted.

See /usr/lib/sa/sa2

it's a shell script.

/dale
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Grindell, Joan M. | 1 Apr 2004 22:16
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RE: SAR: limit the number of days daily sar output is kept

We have the ../cron/crontab/sys setup for sa1 & sa2 and it works.  But i
can't figure out how the old sa2 and sa1 data gets deleted.  We are only
collecting 8 days so its not a matter of wrap around.

thanks
Joan

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From: Dale Ghent [mailto:daleg <at> elemental.org]
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Subject: Re: [SunHELP] SAR: limit the number of days daily sar output is
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On Apr 1, 2004, at 2:14 PM, Grindell, Joan M. wrote:

> My question is:
>
> 	I can't find what process deletes the earlest sa.. and sar.. files.
>
> 	We want to extend the collection days to 30 but i don't know how
> they are getting
> 	deleted.

See /usr/lib/sa/sa2

it's a shell script.

/dale
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Markham, Richard | 1 Apr 2004 22:18

afterstep

Anyone know how to have afterstep run when openwindows was selected
from main Login screen?

Solaris 8 
AS 1.8.8
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