On 25 Jan 2018, at 23:58, Sean Whitney <sean.whit...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I recently switched from sparc to sparc64 using the cdrom drive in September. > Sometime in the last two weeks the server rebooted and when it tried to > restart it hung trying to find a btrfs filesystem, which I don't have. This > seems to be a problem for PCs, but it resolves itself in 15 seconds, and is > an annoyance, while my hangs indefinately. The solution is to remove the > btrfs packages installed on your system. But I can't do this because I can't > get it complete a boot to get a prompt. Both aliases silo images seem to have > the same btrfs packages included. I'm not sure when the btrfs packages were > installed, not knowing it was an issue, I guess I allowed them to be > installed with updates. > > Here is the rub, I can't seem to boot from the cdrom anymore. When I do I get > the following error. > > Rebooting with command: boot cdrom > Boot device: /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3/cdrom@2,0:f File and args: > Can't read disk label. > Can't open disk label package > Evaluating: boot cdrom > > Can't open boot device > > > I can't boot with the net because the net install image for debian hasn't > worked for ultra 5's since lenny. > > Right now I've turned off the Ultra 5 for the next 12 hours to see if it > makes any difference with the CDROM. > > If anyone has any other suggestions as to any sort of recovery I'm all ears, > otherwise I guess it's time to go to recycle. > > Thanks in advance,
No idea what's causing all your issues, unfortunately. Have you tried booting with "linux init=/bin/bash" or similar? What exact error are you getting? Regards, James