Troubleshooting Sun Fire Boot Issues

Troubleshooting boot issues on a Sun Fire v240, an overview of how LOM, the ok prompt, and Solaris all interact, and imaging a SCSI disk with Solaris.

V240 overview video:    • Fixing up a Sun Fire v240 from 2003  

00:00 Intro
01:38 Run levels
02:20 LOM overview
04:20 OpenBoot and ok prompt overview
05:18 NVRAM variables
05:48 Moving between the prompts
08:00 Using the ok prompt
09:08 Booting Solaris
11:27 What's wrong with the V240
14:10 Imaging a SCSI disk with Solaris
19:07 Pulling a CPU
20:01 Finally booting Solaris on the V240

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