Hi all -

I missed the specific hardware...  all I remember seeing was sun4u, but 
my first impression was that the OBP was looking in the wrong place for 
boot cdrom,   like not partition 'f' ...

rich

Glenn Lagasse wrote:
> Hi Kyle,
> 
> Kyle J. McDonald wrote:
>> Well, I've emailed in 2 other replys that just haven't shwon up yet. 
>> I'm sure they'll be here soon though.
>>
>> The latest is that I got Sol NV_40 x86 booted in VMware on my PC, and 
>> managed to use 'cdrw' on it to burn the first disk again.
>>
>> The results were the same. :(
>>
>> Has the boot CD format changed at all? coudl the OBP in these machiens 
>> be out of date enough that it's looking in the wrong place? This just 
>> makes no sense.
>>
> 
> This looks an awful lot like faulty hardware.  Can these cdrom drives 
> read *any* cd you put in them?
> 
> Do the machines your trying to install on recognize the cdrom?  You can 
> use iostat -En from within solaris (if you've got something already 
> installed on these machines) to check.  If not, at the ok prompt you can 
> run probe-ide-all as I recall.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Glenn
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