Fujitsu M10-1/M10-4/M10-4S Servers: Booting from an External DVD

Asset ID:	1-71-1553734.1
Update Date:	2017-04-19
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Solution 1553734.1 : Fujitsu M10-1/M10-4/M10-4S Servers: Booting from an External DVD

Applies to:

Fujitsu M10-1 - Version All Versions to All Versions [Release All Releases]
Fujitsu M10-4 - Version All Versions to All Versions [Release All Releases]
Fujitsu M10-4S - Version All Versions to All Versions [Release All Releases]
Fujitsu SPARC M12-2 - Version All Versions to All Versions [Release All Releases]
Fujitsu SPARC M12-2S - Version All Versions to All Versions [Release All Releases]
Oracle Solaris on SPARC (64-bit)

Goal

Boot from an external DVD player.

Solution

The below example is from a M10-4S with 4 building blocks and the external dvd is being attached to BB#3 which is assigned to LSB03.

Plug the external DVD player into the USB port on the front of the M10 machine.
Power the DVD player on.
Power on the server, or type 'reset-all' at the OBP prompt
For this example the DVD is connected to the front USB port of BB#03 which is LSB03. Look at the 'show-devs' output and look for a line similar to this:
/pci@9800/pci@4/pci@0/pci@1/pci@0/usb@4,1/hub@2

(See Doc Id. 1543194.1 for more M10 device path information)
(See Doc Id. 2254509.1 for more M12 device path information)

If you don't see the string "disk" at the end, the DVD play is not properly attached and powered on.

Correct:
/pci@9800/pci@4/pci@0/pci@1/pci@0/usb@4,1/hub@2/storage@1/disk
DVD Not connected:
/pci@9800/pci@4/pci@0/pci@1/pci@0/usb@4,1/hub@2/storage@1

Then to boot type:

boot /pci@9800/pci@4/pci@0/pci@1/pci@0/usb@4,1/hub@2/storage@1/disk

Example boot messages:

{0} ok boot /pci@9800/pci@4/pci@0/pci@1/pci@0/usb@4,1/hub@2/storage@1/disk
Boot device: /pci@9800/pci@4/pci@0/pci@1/pci@0/usb@4,1/hub@2/storage@1/disk File and args:
NOTICE: skipping unsupported token: fjorclnum
SunOS Release 5.11 Version 11.1 64-bit
Copyright (c) 1983, 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
Remounting root read/write
Probing for device nodes ...
WARNING: /pci@8800/pci@4/pci@0/pci@0/scsi@0/iport@f/disk@w500003942829864a,0 (sd10):
        Corrupt label; wrong magic number

Preparing image for use
Done mounting image
USB keyboard
1. Arabic                        15. Korean
2. Belgian                       16. Latin-American
3. Brazilian                     17. Norwegian
4. Canadian-Bilingual            18. Portuguese
5. Canadian-French               19. Russian
6. Danish                        20. Spanish
7. Dutch                         21. Swedish
8. Dvorak                        22. Swiss-French
9. Finnish                       23. Swiss-German
10. French                        24. Traditional-Chinese
11. German                        25. TurkishQ
12. Italian                       26. UK-English
13. Japanese-type6                27. US-English
14. Japanese
To select the keyboard layout, enter a number [default 27]:

References

<NOTE:1543194.1> - Fujitsu M10-1, M10-4 and M10-4s Device Paths

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