> One person mentioned that older cd-roms don't always like cd-rw media and > that might be the source of my error. For reference sake, I think that may > be a part of it but I also looked at a sun documentation page of sparc > boot-proms and noticed that you can boot different cd-rom partitions and > that the default was partition "c". "boot cdroma"(no typo) will try and > boot the first partition of the cdrom and might give somebody else out > there a better result in the future.
Not, SPARC bootable CD's have a Sun Disk Label, and several slices to provide boot functionality. The normal bootup is just fine and works. I suspect the problem is plainly the cdrw media. Glad you got things installed. -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ Deqo - http://www.deqo.com/

