08-19-2008, 09:58 PM
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 Re: New PCI QFE 501-5406 card in Ultra 30, for Don and others! :-)
On 2008-08-19, Barry L. Bond wrote:
> Okay, my last update for today! :-)
>
> Well, I tried it, and boy did it fail! :-)
>
> I may have misread Ketan's "change the instance numbers from 0 to
> 2000..."... I changed EVERY INSTANCE NUMBER IN THE FILE, adding 2000 to
> it! :-O
>
> Then, it failed to boot. (Well, actually, it "kind of" booted, but
> the disk check failed, and it said to enter root password or type ^D, but
> no typing "got through".
Get back to the OBP "ok" prompt, and type:
boot -r
which does the same thing as the touch /reconfigure and reboot, but
doesn't require access to the OS at all.
> Then, AFTER that (:-O), I thought... "oh well, maybe he meant just
> the instance numbers of this card..." :-)
Yes -- just those numbers.
[ ... ]
> A "touch /reconfigure" and reboot did reboot, just fine.
>
> However, I get pretty well the EXACT error in the last message, with
> hme1 and hme2 showing up.
>
> (And, I realize [now] that he said Solaris 8 doesn't support 802.1q
> on BGE interfaces, and mine isn't the same kind of interface, but hey, I
> was wanting it to work!) :-D
I was wondering about that -- but presumed that you found it
with a search for "qfe" among other parameters.
> I will be doing some things with my mother. I probably am about
> finished, for today.
O.K.
> I actually like this. I may experiment on the smaller disk. Once I
> get it working, I'll do the same thing on the larger disk, which is the
> one I have actually been booting from since I put it in until when I reset
> the default environment variable values regarding what you were helping me
> with after the lightning strike. Then, if I do something else "really
> stupid", I can (hopefully/probably?) get it booted, and fixed, and
> continue trying to figure things out! :-D
If all else fails, you may want to pick up either another of the
single hme cards like what you already have, or a new system board to
swap in place of the one with the fried hme0 port.
> I'm out of ideas, at the moment. That's my status. I anxiously
> await your advice and opinions, and the kind way you have of not
> "deriding" me for stupid things like what I just did! :-D
Well -- I've got lots queued up for you. :-)
Good Luck,
DoN.
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