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Old 01-16-2008, 03:10 PM
Schroeder, AJ
 
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Default Ultra 30 - powers on but won't boot

Hello group,

I have an interesting one here. I have an Ultra 30 here as a test machine. I
swapped hard drives and loaded Solaris 10. Ever since I swapped hard drives
the Ultra 30 it has been doing some strange things.

When I power the machine on with the keyboard, it gives the appearance that
it will boot, I am greeted with the open boot (ver. 3.25) screen and the
machine begins to init the memory - when that completes, it says something
about boot device "boot file and args:" then the machine hangs. I cannot do
anything with the keyboard (i.e. Stop-A) - all I can do is power off the
computer. Speaking of Stop-A, I can hit that when the machine is checking
memory and I get the ok prompt - it appears to hang after memory checks.

I am by no means an expert at Sun hardware, but I have tried the Stop-A
approach and even the Stop-N, but the machine still hangs after checking the
memory. If anyone has seen this before or if anyone has any suggestions to
this it would be greatly appreciated. I am stumped.

Thank you in advance for the help,

AJ Schroeder


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