L.Guruprasad wrote:
I have the Solaris sparc iso burnt to a dvd (sol-10-u8-ga-sparc-dvd.iso). The Sun Blade 1500 machine that I'm going to try to install the os, has solaris 9 running already. I can't get the computer to boot from the DVD. By the time, monitor displays visual, the boot device is already chosen as 'disk' and it is booting from the hard disk. Is the sparc iso bootable? Is this the way of installing on sparc machines. I have no idea as this is the first time I am installing anything on the sparc hardware.
You will need to issue a command like "boot cdrom" from the "ok" prompt. If the system has already booted from the disk, then log in as root and issue "init 0". This should shut down, and when you see something like "Program terminated" followed by "ok".
If the system won't boot, or you don't care about the OS, the hold the "Stop" key (top left corner of a Sun-style keyboard) and press A (referred to as Stop-A). This should halt the OS and drop you immediately to the ok prompt.
Now try typing "boot cdrom". The system should reset, and attempt to boot from the "cd" drive (yes it's actually the DVD drive, but the OBP doesn't really care).
Hope that helps, Brian -- Brian Ruthven Solaris Revenue Product Engineering Sun Microsystems UK Sparc House, Guillemont Park, Camberley, GU17 9QG _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
