Weird Sunfire V100 Issue

[MotionBlur]

I finally got around to messing with my Sunfire V100 Sparc machine and it seems to be hitting a wall. I am connected to it over console and get this output:

LOMlite starting up.

CPU type: H8/3437S, mode 3
Ram-test: 2048 bytes OK
Initialising i2c bus: OK
Searching for EEPROMs: 50(cfg)
I2c eeprom @50: OK
i2c bus speed code 01... OK
Probing for lm80s: none
Probing for lm75s: 48
Initialising lm75 @48: OK
System functions: PSUs fans breakers rails gpio temps host CLI ebus clock
Power restored

LOMlite console
lom>
LOM event: +0h0m0s LOM booted
lom>
LOM event: +0h0m0s host power on
À

Starting real time clock...
Sun Fire V100 (UltraSPARC-IIe 548MHz), Keyboard Present
OpenBoot 4.0, 1024 MB memory installed, Serial #53121568.
Ethernet address 0:3:ba:2a:92:20, Host ID: 832a9220.



Boot device: disk0:a File and args:
SunOS Release 5.8 Version Generic_108528-20 64-bit
Copyright 1983-2003 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
Cannot mount root on /pseudo/md@0:0,10,blk fstype ufs

panic[cpu0]/thread=10408000: vfs_mountroot: cannot mount root

0000000010407970 genunix:vfs_mountroot+70 (10436000, 0, 0, 10438f68, 10, 14)
%l0-3: 0000000010436000 00000000104398c8 00000000de000000 0000000010436418
%l4-7: 0000000000000000 0000000010413878 00000000000bc27c 000000000000027c
0000000010407a20 genunix:main+8c (104101d0, 2000, 10407ec0, 10408030, fff2, 10051178)
%l0-3: 0000000000000001 0000000000000001 0000000000000015 0000000000000f01
%l4-7: 0000000010429190 00000000104623c8 00000000000d44d0 00000000000004d0

skipping system dump - no dump device configured
rebooting...
Resett
LOM event: +0h1m22s host reset
ing ...

I've stuck a Solaris 10 CD in the cd-rom drive and it won't boot off of it. I'm assuming it's simply trying to boot off of a previously bootable drive. However it is failing. I've tried hitting Stop-A on my Sun keyboard, sending break commands from XShell and typing #. via the keyboard and over console. Nothing seems to bring up the LOM prompt.

Any ideas?

 

[rmdashrrootsplat]

Did you try removing the harddrive so it doesn't see it? If it doesn't see the harddrive it should kick you out to an OK prompt where you can disable auto-boot and manually boot cdrom.

If that doesn't work to bring up the LOM prompt hold down the switch by the power cord until the light goes out (~7 seconds).

Once there you can do this to boot off the cdrom:

lom > bootmode forth
lom > poweron
...wait for it to power on, you should see an "ok " prompt.
ok > setenv auto-boot? false
ok > reset
...wait for it to restart.
ok > boot cdrom
...it should directly boot to the cdrom now.

 

[MotionBlur]

Figured it out, I was using a DB9 to DB9 cable to extend my RJ45->DB9 cable. I guess the pinouts are different slightly thus my inability to do anything on the console.

Got FreeBSD 8.2 on it now, running smoothly.

Thanks!