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 be out of date enough that it's looking in the wrong place?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 > _______________________________________________ > install-discuss mailing list > install-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/install-discuss -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: rich.reynolds.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 293 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/install-discuss/attachments/20060928/fee7cc4b/attachment.vcf>
