On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 02:27:05PM -0800, Michael Gesundheit wrote: > It seems that I encounter difficulties getting a boot > CD. Is this something uncommon in OpenSolaris?
You need the boot CD for your distribution. You haven't said which distribution you're using, but based on your other post I'm assuming it's Solaris Express. If the problem is with burning a boot CD, you might try cdrecord (it's on the Solaris Companion CD) instead of cdrw; I've had somewhat better luck with it, especially with burn-free enabled. Your burner may or may not support this feature. You might want to read the section of cdrw's manual concerning running at a higher priority. Mr. Ian Collins also had some helpful suggestions around testing your newly-burned CD. > One can get a fs corruption that requires a boot cd > and running fsck. > > Does this never happened on Open Solaris?? It's certainly possible to damage your root filesystem, yes. Of course, if you are unmounting it cleanly and not scribbling over the raw device, it should not happen. If you can describe a reproducible way to corrupt your filesystem, you should file a bug; bugs that result in data loss are taken very seriously. -- Keith M Wesolowski "Sir, we're surrounded!" Solaris Kernel Team "Excellent; we can attack in any direction!" _______________________________________________ opensolaris-help mailing list [email protected]
