The end of my Ultrasparc 5?!?
I recently switched from sparc to sparc64 using the cdrom drive in
September. Sometime in the last two weeks the server rebooted and when
it tried to restart it hung trying to find a btrfs filesystem, which I
don't have. This seems to be a problem for PCs, but it resolves itself
in 15 seconds, and is an annoyance, while my hangs indefinately. The
solution is to remove the btrfs packages installed on your system. But
I can't do this because I can't get it complete a boot to get a prompt.
Both aliases silo images seem to have the same btrfs packages included.
I'm not sure when the btrfs packages were installed, not knowing it was
an issue, I guess I allowed them to be installed with updates.
Here is the rub, I can't seem to boot from the cdrom anymore. When I do
I get the following error.
Rebooting with command: boot cdrom
Boot device: /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3/cdrom@2,0:f File and args:
Can't read disk label.
Can't open disk label package
Evaluating: boot cdrom
Can't open boot device
I can't boot with the net because the net install image for debian
hasn't worked for ultra 5's since lenny.
Right now I've turned off the Ultra 5 for the next 12 hours to see if it
makes any difference with the CDROM.
If anyone has any other suggestions as to any sort of recovery I'm all
ears, otherwise I guess it's time to go to recycle.
Thanks in advance,
Sean
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The only time you should look in your neighbor's bowl it to make sure
that they have enough. You don't look in your neighbor's bowl to see if
you have … as much as them.
― Louis CK
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