On 9/28/06, Kyle J. McDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
WEll, I guess the moderator is really busy, because more replies I've emailed
have yet to show up. I guess I 'll stick with the web interface from now on.
Something is definitely wrong here. But I'll be damned if I can figure it out.
I get the same results no matter what I try.
I've tried the SB100 IDE CDROM in the U10, The U10 IDE CDROM in the SB100.
I've tried a PC IDE CDROM in both.
I've tried them all as master and as slave, and on both IDE0 and IDE1.
I've tried it with and without the IDE Hard Drive plugged in.
I've tried them with NV_46 CD's I've burned (from most combinatiosn of 2
different burners and 3 different burning programs.) and with a set of original
S8 00/06 CD's I finally managed to track down.
I always get the same result:
Can't read disk label
Can't open disk label package
Can't open boot device
'probe-ide' always shows them as there.
The CDROM drive light lights up when the boot attempt is made.
I even triesd to boot from the Prom Update CD in the S8 CD book. Same results.
I guess I'm back to thinking it's a HW problem, but I"m not sure where to
start, and Something in me keeps saying:
"But how coudl both of those computers from different people in different parts of
the company, and different design's both have the same problem?"
Can anyone tell me where on the CD the OBP looks to find the label?
UUUGGGHHH! This makes no sense!!!!
-Kyle
Hi Kyle,
don't know if I can be of any real help here but I'll just share my experience.
I have an Ultra 60 on which I've installed Solaris Express. I went
through the same issue you are describing and, similarly, I couldn't
figure out what the problem was initially.
At some point I was really afraid it could be a HW problem: a fairly
big amount of wasted €€€.
I kept trying anyway and eventually I've managed to burn a CD set that
was accepted by the workstation. The CDs were burnt with the simplest
program, without even the faintest fancy feature, minimum speed!
I'm sure I did nothing to fix a possible HW issue so my conclusion was
that my w.s. is absolutely very picky when it comes to burnt CDs.
The only suggestion I have is, can't you try with an official CD? Even
an older version should give you at least the confidence that the
system is still operative.
G'luck,
-mw
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