Re: Subject=Re: New sparc64 installation images 2017-03-14

[Kevin Stabel <kevin.stabel@gmail.com>]

Hi,

This is indeed openboot throwing this error.

Make sure your nvramrc doesn't contain any strange or unnecessary commands.

If you for example try to do a probe-scsi or probe-scsi-all before booting, you have a high chance of getting this error.

Random commands in OBP can leave the memory in a state that prevents booting.

I've seen it happen many times when i was playing with the fcode functions of my onboard FC adaptor.

I just do a reset-all when it happens, and that seems to clear it up.

Kind Regards,

-Kevin

On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 6:43 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:

On 03/25/2017 06:04 PM, Anatoly Pugachev wrote:
> I had this error on my e250 about 10 years ago when I had debian
> installed on it. The only way I could boot succesfully next time,
> is to power off machine completely via alom (or whatever e250 had
> for remote access, can't remember), and after power on it could
> load/boot to silo.

Either way, I think this error message comes from the firmware and
not SILO, so this is something someone needs to answer who is more
knowledgeable with the inner workings of the firmware.

Adrian

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