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Scuttlebutt 🇨🇦 @scuttlebutt@farticle.cloud
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Trying to boot up a Sun V100 that’s sat disconnected in the basement since we moved 12 years ago.

First I had to find where packrat me stored the sun rj45 to db9 console dongles, and then the old ibm 3151 terminal and its null modem cable and some gender benders and… I can see the LOM. (lights out management)

No go for boot. Diags say bad dimm0. I think there’s more than one dimm though, as it shows 1500 mb total.
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Scuttlebutt 🇨🇦 @scuttlebutt@farticle.cloud
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Shuffled ram around, no joy. There are a bunch of caps nearby that look like they're leaking a bit. Hmm. Diagnostics sometimes pass, sometimes not.

Maybe I'll just pop the ide drive out and find my ide-to-usb thing, copy to an image and see if a vm can deal with the zfs inside that. Might have to install a Solaris x86 vm.

I haven't worked with solaris or physical sun hardware in a looooong time, but I do have Solaris 10 optical media for sparc and intel here somewhere, and I know I used it to create a vm in the past.
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Scuttlebutt 🇨🇦 @scuttlebutt@farticle.cloud
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I thought the loud noises from this little server were from the power supply fan, chassis fan, or maybe the hard disk. Nope, it's the cpu cooler. Sounds a bit like a two stroke chain saw.
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Scuttlebutt 🇨🇦 @scuttlebutt@farticle.cloud
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Photos or it didn't happen. It's very very very slow to boot, I'm not holding out much hope it will complete. Best I plan on extracting the hard disk data to an image tomorrow and see what I can do with that.
terminal keyboard on top of open chassis of server, screen of terminal behind
Close up of serial terminal with sun server booting messages
Suspect capacitors
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Scuttlebutt 🇨🇦 @scuttlebutt@farticle.cloud
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Boot froze at that stage so I guess it’ll be the hard disk imaging maneuver.
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