V100 -- can't open boot device / stuck in OB PROM

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To: "'sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org'" <sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org>
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 12:16:09 -0500

After some issues with my last V100, Sun sent me a brand new one to replace
it. I tried upgrading the Solaris 8 to 9, but it was unable to mount the
second installation disk. I checked the disk, and sure enough, there was a
big ole scratch, and I figured it was just a bad disk and set it aside for
the time being.

After letting it gather dust on my desk for a few months, I decided to
install Gentoo Linux on it from a LiveCD. Uh oh-same problem. Probe-ide
all tells me that there's neither a hard drive for a cdrom present, but
test-all passes the ide test. Does anyone have any ideas as to how I might
be able to get this paperweight working again?

Here's the result of probe-ide-all and test-all, along with a few boot
attempts:

<snip>

ok probe-ide-all

/pci@1f,0/ide@d

  Device 0 ( Primary Master )

         Not Present

  Device 1 ( Primary Slave )

         Not Present

  Device 2 ( Secondary Master )

         Not Present

  Device 3 ( Secondary Slave )

         Not Present

ok test-all

Testing /pci@1f,0/ide@d

Testing /pci@1f,0/usb@a

Testing /pci@1f,0/ethernet@5

Testing /pci@1f,0/ethernet@c

Testing /pci@1f,0/pmu@3

Testing /pci@1f,0/pmu@3/i2c@0,0/i2c-nvram@0,a0

Testing /pci@1f,0/isa@7/serial@0,2e8

Testing /pci@1f,0/isa@7/serial@0,3f8

[Used as Console]

Testing /pci@1f,0/isa@7/SUNW,lomh@0,8010

ok boot cdrom

Res

LOM event: +8d+18h56m38s host reset

etting ...

Sun Fire V100 (UltraSPARC-IIe 548MHz), No Keyboard

OpenBoot 4.0, 1024 MB memory installed, Serial #53837020.

Ethernet address 0:3:ba:35:7c:dc, Host ID: 83357cdc.

Executing last command: boot cdrom

Boot device: /pci@1f,0/ide@d/cdrom@3,0:f File and args:

Can't read disk label.

Can't open disk label package

Evaluating: boot cdrom

Can't open boot device

Boot device: cdrom File and args:

Can't read disk label.

Can't open disk label package

Evaluating: boot

Can't open boot device

ok

</snip>

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