Comments on: Sun Fire X2270 Can’t Boot Solaris

By: autistischer Server - em Schorsch sin Bastelbud

autistischer Server - em Schorsch sin Bastelbud — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:35:11 +0000

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By: jesse

jesse — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:58:43 +0000

The local Sun engineers in Adelaide organised for two ILOM cards to be shipped from spare parts, and once they were installed the machines now boot, and new installs also are bootable.

It’s amazing that these machines were allowed to be shipped in a state where you can install the OS but can never boot from it!

By: Antoon Frehe

Antoon Frehe — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:54:42 +0000

I have a similar problem. I have two of those x2270 without ilom. I need to install a fresh OS because I don’t want Solaris. Currently they are just sitting there waiting for the ilom to arrive. Very annoying really.

By: jesse

jesse — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:56:50 +0000

I’ve now found that I can get it to show me a bit more of the console output before freezing if I do Ctrl+I (i was trying to get into the raid setup menu) and I then saw the following before it froze up:

GRUB Loading stage2…