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

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