To Run the FCode Self-Test Diagnostic

For more information about the OpenBoot commands (including test) in this section, refer to the OpenBoot Command Reference manual.

1.Before shutting down the operating environment and halting the system, ensure that all significant application activity on the server has acquiesced.

2.Follow the appropriate procedures, as documented in the system’s service manual, to shut down and halt the system.

Refer to the system’s documentation for the complete shutdown procedure.

After shutting down the system, you should now see the OpenBoot PROM ok prompt on the system console.

3.At the ok prompt, set the auto-boot?configuration variable to false.

ok setenv auto-boot? false

4.Set the diag-switch? parameter to true in order to see the diagnostic power-on self- test (POST) messages.

ok setenv diag-switch? true

5.Reset the system to activate these parameter changes.

ok reset-all

6.Use the show-devscommand to display the list of devices.

Among the list of devices, you should see the SUNW,ma device specific to the SunATM adapter, as shown in the following example.

ok show-devs

. . .

/pci@if,0/pci@1/pci@1/pci@a/SUNW,ma@0

. . .

Note The device path shown above is an example. The actual device path displayed on your system may be different.

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Sun Microsystems 3U manual To Run the FCode Self-Test Diagnostic, Reset the system to activate these parameter changes