Circling back around replying to my own issue in the off chance that someone else ran into this problem and this helps them out. Think it's probably a pretty edge case though not too many folks seem to be running Sun's anymore.
I was able to dump the contents of the NVRAM by booting of an older version of OpenBSD. In my case I went clear back to 5.3 because that was just a CD I had. When I get more time maybe I'll figure out where the functionality breaks and see if I can fix it or at least provide a clear bug report. But for now, once I had the 3 files that ldomctl dump produces I saved them off and loaded 6.2. I was then able to create and load my own ldom config into NVRAM. Happy to say I now have a few T5120's that are running 8 ldoms each. (8x8 cpuxram). Should now get a couple more years life out of these expensive wind tunnels. On Fri, 1 Dec 2017 19:04:42 -0700 Eric S Pulley <pul...@dabus.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to breath some life into some Sun T5120's that no longer > have oracle support for by switching them to OpenBSD6.2. > > The issue I'm having is when I go to dump the contents of the > NVRAM config into the current working directory to copy for my new > config, the ldomctl dump command never completes. > > I don't know what the expected behavior is as I've never run OpenBSD > as the primary domain before. However after letting ldomctl dump run > for over an hour all I have is one file and the process is still > running: > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 23168 Dec 1 18:37 hv.md > > I've tried running ldomd in the foreground to see if there is any sort > of error but it seems to all be running okay. Before I cleared the > system of all my old LDOMs ldomctl was seeing them fine and was able > to access them. > > Can anyone who has run this before tell me if ldomctl dump just takes > a really long time or possibly shed some light on where I have gone > wrong? > > As a side note OpenBSD runs beautifully on these hosts in an ldom. I > have had zero issues. Just trying to stop using Solaris all together > now.
