Sun Enterprise [TM] 3500 OBP 3.2.x Will not create boot devalias if slot 1 has type 5 graphic I/O board 501-4884 installed

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Update Date:	2009-02-18
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Solution 1008916.1 : Sun Enterprise [TM] 3500 OBP 3.2.x Will not create boot devalias if slot 1 has type 5 graphic I/O board 501-4884 installed

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Sun Enterprise 3500 Server

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Symptoms
Open Boot [TM] Prom 3.2.x will not create a devalias for booting Sun Enterprise[TM] 3500 server internal fc-al disks when GRAPHIC I/O board type 5 (501-4884) is installed in slot 1.

Open Boot Program 3.2.x probing process for creating devalias does not interrogate /sbus@2. Thus a devalias for booting system will not be created. GRAPHIC type 5
I/O board is unique in that it's onboard fc-al (socal) controller path is located under /sbus@3, where the normally installed SBUS type 4 I/O board (501-4883) internal
fc-al (socal) path is /sbus@2. If 501-4884-0x GRAPHIC I/O board is installed in slot 1 and system requires booting from internal Sun Enterprise 3500 fc-al disk you will
need to manually create devalias.

Resolution
Creating the devalias for booting:

========================================================================
Use  "show-disks"  and  "probe-fcal-all"  to gather path info.
========================================================================
{a}ok show-disks
a) /sbus@2,0/SUNW,socal@d,10000/sf@1,0/ssd
b) /sbus@2,0/SUNW,socal@d,10000/sf@0,0/ssd
q) NO SELECTION
Enter Selection, q to quit: q
{a} ok probe-fcal-all
/sbus@3,0/SUNW,socal@d,10000/sf@1,0
Port#0 received soc-status=14
/sbus@3,0/SUNW,socal@d,10000/sf@0,0
WWN 2005080020a1ef52 Loopid  1
WWN 210000203714cf98 Loopid e2
Disk     SEAGATE ST19171FCSUN9.0G137E9841W393  WWN 210000203714d483 Loopid e4
Disk     SEAGATE ST19171FCSUN9.0G137E9841V820  WWN 210000203714da86 Loopid e8
Disk     SEAGATE ST19171FCSUN9.0G137E9842V612  WWN 210000203714d783 Loopid ef
=======================================================================
Create the alias for the boot disk:
=======================================================================
Method I
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{a} OK nvalias mybootdisk /sbus@3,0/SUNW,socal@d,1000/sf@1,0/ssd@0,0
-- or --
{a} OK nvalias mybootdisk /sbus@3,0/SUNW,socal@d,1000/sf@1,0/WWN210000203714d483,0:a
NOTE: The WWN in this example is the WWN of the boot disk. On certain occasions [:a] may need to be omitted.
Method II
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{a}ok nvedit
0:nvalias mybootdisk /sbus@3,0/SUNW,socal@d,1000/sf@1,0/WWN210000203714d483,0 [Ctrl-c]
{a}ok nvstore
{a}ok setenv use-nvramrc? true
{a}ok setenv boot-device mybootdisk
{a}ok reset-all

Product
Sun Enterprise 3500 Server

Internal Comments
james.bain@sun.com

boot, devalias, filesystems
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Change History
Date: 2008-01-08
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Date: 2008-01-08
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