Chapter 4 Troubleshooting Procedures 4-17
4.7.5 Error Reporting in OpenBoot Diagnostics
When OpenBoot Diagnostics encounters an error, a set of standard information is
displayed to the user:
■ ERROR: error message detailing the cause of failure
■ DEVICE: the device path name from the OpenBoot Diagnostics device tree
■ SUBTEST: name of the subtest that caused the error
■ MACHINE: name of the machine upon which the error occurred
■ SERIAL#: serial number of the machine upon which the error occurred
■ DATE: date and time when the error occurred.
4.7.6 Exiting OpenBoot Diagnostics and Resetting the
OpenBoot PROM settings
After you exit OpenBoot Diagnostics, you may want to reset the OpenBoot PROM
parameters so that the system automatically boots at power-on.
1. To exit OpenBoot Diagnostics, type exit at the obdiag prompt.
The system will return to the OpenBoot PROM ok prompt.
To set the system to automatically boot after POST, you must reset the auto-boot?
parameter to true, and invoke reset-all.
CODE EXAMPLE 4-16 Example of Error Testing Output
Testing /pci@1f,0/ebus@c/flashprom@0,0
ERROR : FLASHPROM CRC-32 is incorrect
DEVICE : /pci@1f,0/ebus@c/flashprom@0,0
SUBTEST: selftest
MACHINE: Sun Blade 150 (UltraSPARC-IIe)
SERIAL#: 11910854
DATE : 04/10/2002 02:32:16 GMT
/pci@1f,0/ebus@c/flashprom@0,0 selftest failed, return code
= 1
ok
obdiag exit
ok%