[Suns-at-Home] 11 quid E450 not surprisingly wont boot..

[Claus Kick]

Angus Fox wrote:

Hi Angus,

> I scored an E450 with 4GB 1x 400MHz and 20 drives on ebay for eleven  
> pounds GBP. (now thats depreciation!)

That is cheap indeed.

> Of course it doesnt boot (yet) - but it nearly does.
> 
> Id like to get it going rather than cannibalise it.. Plenty of cheap  
> E450 parts on ebay means that theres no limit to what can be replaced..
> 
> I couldnt resist it - full of drives :-)
> 
> All Power is green, the key mechanism works.
> 
> OBP loads, I can see the hostid and Sun banner, It displays memory (it  
> seems to think 2GB now) it gets as far as the initialising | which  
> doesnt turn and it just hangs there forever.
> 
> I tried the diagnostic boot, same thing. I tried breaking into NVRAM  
> and can get to an OK prompt and lots of drives show up :-) but from  
> there on Im not sure.

Did you do the memory test routines from OBP?


> I am planning to take all the memory out and boards and drives out and  
> slowly rebuild it checking if it boots each time. That way I can  
> isolate the defect.

That is a good way to work.
Also, try just to reseat the RAM properly, perhaps one got loosened a bit.