Summary:stop-A during installing solaris

From: Tze Wong (mongki_tze@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Mar 23 1999 - 20:12:16 CST


Hi managers,
The replies pointed me to run test memory and power down the server
and reboot. That's what I did in the first case, and did not return
any error during test memory, and still give the same problem when I
booted it up again.
I forgot to mention I was booting from an external CDROM drive (target
= 6)which was attached to the narrow scsi controller card(not being
used all the while in that machine). The problem solved when I put in
an internal CDROM drive and proceed with the installation.
Seems like the error message that I got from the screen is misleading.
Many thanks for the following who replied.
Damir Delija
scott r kulp
David B. Harrington

Here's the summarised answer and original post.
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Run some tests of the memory at the boot prom level. That's the only
positive message you have.
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Power on the cpu while holding down the stop and the 'n' key. hold
them
down until the green light on the monitor comes on.type setenv
selftest-#megs xx ( xx= the total ammount of memory listed on the
banner)
type help diag
type the memory test that is listed. ex test-memory
if you get an error. remove the simm..
reseat all memory.
type boot cdrom -s
format the disk.
now you have a clean start. reboot and start install.
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shut down the machine
and the try

boot -r cdrom
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original post:
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> Hi managers,
> I did a stop-A halfway when installing the Solaris 2.5.1 to a Sparc20.
> The servers is unable to boot cdom and install then.
> When I boot from cdrom,it gives a message saying memory error, and
> sync file system to reboot after configuring the /dev
> I tried to boot from the hyper-terminal then, where it gave the same
> error after selecting the terminal type.
> Any suggestion where I should look at?
> thanks in advance.
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> tc
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