In the meantime i've remembered, that i have an IDE DVD-RW and i replaced the drive. Now it does not eject the Solaris DVD, but i still cannot boot anything with "boot cdrom".
Kevin Stabel <[email protected]> írta: >If you don't mind the cost of one disc, you could.If you do mind the cost, >you could try to look up what your drive supports.On Sun, Apr 9, 2017 at 5:11 >PM, transmail [email protected]> wrote:Yes, it is. It's a DVD+RW. And >both the FreeBSD and Debian CD-s i tried to boot up were CD-RW. Should i try >CD-R and DVD-R? > >Kevin Stabel [email protected]> írta: >>This is a burned DVD yeah?It could actually be a fairly obscure issue, namely >>DVD-R vs DVD+RPlease have a look here: >>https://pc.net/helpcenter/answers/different_dvd_r_formatsOn Sun, Apr 9, 2017 >>at 4:51 PM, transmail [email protected]> wrote:I&#39;ve tried to set >>auto-boot? to false but it&#39;s still ejecting my Solaris DVD. What can >>cause this? >> >>Mark Morgan Lloyd [email protected]> írta: >>>On 09/04/17 12:00, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >>>> That&#39;s not a proof that this drive works. Try reading a known good >>>> medium, e.g. a commercially pressed CD and see if that works. >>>> >>>> And, even if that works, it could still be that the old CD-ROM drive in >>>> your SPARC doesn&#39;t handle CD-Rs. >>>> >>>> You really need to make sure the drive can deal with the CDs >>>> you&#39;ve created. Testing them on a modern drive is moot. Modern >>>> drives are more tolerant with CD-Rs and CD-RWs. >>> >>>I think that system had a comparatively-recent IDE-connected DVD, but >>>mine&#39;s somewhere waiting to be scrapped and I&#39;m afraid >>>I&#39;m not going >>>digging for it. >>> >>>-- >>>Mark Morgan Lloyd >>>markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk >>> >>>[Opinions above are the author&#39;s, not those of his employers or >>>colleagues] >>> >>> >> >> >> > >
