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From: Huub on 28 Dec 2009 04:11 Hi, I have Solaris 5.10 running on an UltraSparc-III+. I want to upgrade it to the newest version, and have burnt a bootable DVD. Now I have the problem that when I reboot using "boot cdrom", it says it can't access boot device, but when I'm on my desktop, the DVD is mounted and accessible. What can be wrong? Thanks
From: Dr. David Kirkby on 28 Dec 2009 17:48 On Dec 28, 9:11 am, Huub <v.niekerk_@_hccnet.nl> wrote: > Hi, > > I have Solaris 5.10 running on an UltraSparc-III+. I want to upgrade it > to the newest version, and have burnt a bootable DVD. Now I have the > problem that when I reboot using "boot cdrom", it says it can't access > boot device, but when I'm on my desktop, the DVD is mounted and > accessible. > What can be wrong? > > Thanks Did you burn the file you downloaded as an ISO image, or simply copy it to a DVD as a file, then burn the DVD? The latter will not work. A more complete error message might be helpful, so one could see what device it is trying to boot.
From: Huub on 29 Dec 2009 04:26 > > Did you burn the file you downloaded as an ISO image, or simply copy it > to a DVD as a file, then burn the DVD? The latter will not work. > > A more complete error message might be helpful, so one could see what > device it is trying to boot. I did it the right way: downloaded the ISO, then burned the ISO to DVD using gnome-baker. Complete error message: boot device: /pci@8,700000/scsi@6/disk@6,0:f File and args: Evaluating: boot cdrom Can't open boot device Thanks for helping out.
From: Huub on 29 Dec 2009 12:54 On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 06:51:10 -0800, Michael Vilain wrote: > > SCSI disk target ID=6 is usually the DVD/CDROM. DVD-ROM to be precise.. > > Either yours is misconfigured, there's a problem with the cabling, or > your drive doesn't work or can't read the disk. > > Can you pull it and put it in another system where it works? > > Could it be you have a CD Reader rather than a DVD reader, whereby your > carefully burned DVD won't work? If I boot the computer normally and put the DVD in, it is being mounted and an icon appears on the JDS desktop. I can read and access the DVD. At the moment I can just not boot from it. And I have installed Solaris from self-burned DVD's using this DVD-drive before. > > What happens if you put in a SUN-sourced DVD? I don't have an original SUN SPARC DVD. It came second(?) hand pre- installed. > > Some directions to investigate... Appreciated.
From: Michael Laajanen on 31 Dec 2009 04:09
Hi, Huub wrote: >> Did you burn the file you downloaded as an ISO image, or simply copy it >> to a DVD as a file, then burn the DVD? The latter will not work. >> >> A more complete error message might be helpful, so one could see what >> device it is trying to boot. > > I did it the right way: downloaded the ISO, then burned the ISO to DVD > using gnome-baker. > > Complete error message: > > boot device: /pci@8,700000/scsi@6/disk@6,0:f File and args: > Evaluating: boot cdrom > > Can't open boot device > > > Thanks for helping out. Unless you are dead sure about gnome-baker, can you write the DVD from the Sparc,does it have a DVD burner? If, you just do cdrw -i <ISOFILE> /michael |