Re: Unable to boot sparc from raid drive installation:Open ..... Invalid argument

Thanks for the detailed explanation.

Really appreciated.

All the best....

Regards,

Kihaguru.

On Mon, Sep 2, 2019 at 6:17 PM Stefan Sperling <stsp@stsp.name> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 02, 2019 at 05:32:53PM +0300, Kihaguru Gathura wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Unable to boot with the following message
> >
> > open /pci@83,4000/FJSV,ulsa@2,1/disk@0,0:a/etc/random.seed: Invalid
> argument
> > open /pci@83,4000/FJSV,ulsa@2,1/disk@0,0:a/bsd: Invalid argument
>
> > Boot device: /pci@83,4000/FJSV,ulsa@2,1/disk@0,0 File and args:
>
> > Trying bsd...
> > open /pci@83,4000/FJSV,ulsa@2,1/disk@0,0:a/etc/random.seed: Invalid
> argument
> > open /pci@83,4000/FJSV,ulsa@2,1/disk@0,0:a/bsd: Invalid argument
>
> BOOT_SPARC64(8) System Manager's Manual (sparc64)
> BOOT_SPARC64(8)
>
> [...]
>
> To boot from a softraid(4) volume by default, boot-device must be set
> to
> a disk device hosting a chunk of the softraid volume:
>
> ok setenv boot-device disk0
>
> and boot-file must contain the (sr) device name of the softraid volume
> and optionally a partition letter and/or kernel:
>
> ok setenv boot-file sr0a:/bsd
>