Hi,
Sorry for such a late summary but I had hoped I could summarize with an answer
to my problem. Nobody has had the same problem and I've not had much time to
look at it. Anyhow, here was my original question:
> Hi,
>
> I have been trying to boot our Sun4/470 from the internal CD-ROM with no luck.
> This is a 4/470 with 32MB of memory, IPI disks, 3 Ethernet controllers,
> running SunOS4.1.1, and ROM Revision 3.0. I have tried to boot from the
> SunOS4.1.1 CD and the SunOS4.1.2 CD and get the same error. The machine
> works fine other than this. The CD-ROM drive works when the machine is up
> and running.
>
> I try to boot from the monitor with this command:
>
> b sd(0,30,1)
>
> The error messages are:
>
> Correctable Memory Error on Board 0 at
> Physical Address 0xD411E000, Syndrome Register CE000000
>
> <similar error messages>
>
> Watchdog Reset
>
> I ran the memory test and it comes out okay.
>
> The 4.1.2 release manual mentions a problem with 470's with IPI drives and
> Rom Revisions earlier than 3.0 having a problem booting from CD and offers
> a workaround. The workaround is to use this command when booting:
>
> b sd(0,30,1) -asw
>
> and then answer the prompts it gives. This does not work either and produces
> the following error messages:
>
> /: bad dir ino 2 at offset 0: mangled entry
> lookuppn failed: No such file or directory
> copen: bad vn_open
>
> Has anyone had a similar experience or have any idea what this is?
Some people thought this was the wrong command to boot from a CD but I
believe it is the correct command for a 4/470.
The only person who responded about a similar problem said:
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From: eeikhey@eeiua.ericsson.se (Kevin Heagney)
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If a Sun ELC has a mixture of 16 MByte and 4 MByte SIMMs, the first SIMM
slot must contain a 16 MByte SIMM, otherwise a local CD-ROM disk drive
might not work. You might be having a similar problem with the Sun 4/470.
When it is fixed I will summarize again.
Thanks to the following:
eeikhey@eeiua.ericsson.se (Kevin Heagney)
win@euu.siemens-albis.ch (Beni Wittlin EUU2 4001)
"Susan Thielen" <thielen@irus.rri.uwo.ca>
antoine@RadOnc.Duke.EDU
barnes@sde.mdso.vf.ge.com (Barnes William)
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