Re: Sparc u5
On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 03:48:21PM +, Sevan / Venture37 wrote: On 31/12/2009 12:08, Edd Barrett wrote: PS. The solaris installer is dumb and will probably fail to detect a disk with a BSD disk label on it. There is another step you will need to do in the 'format' utility in solaris related to the partition table. I forget the exact details. Go googling. http://www.geeklan.co.uk/?p=61 That's the one! -- Best Regards Edd Barrett http://www.theunixzoo.co.uk
Re: Sparc u5
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 09:24:04PM -0800, Allen wrote: I've got a sparc u5 with running openbsd. I need to re-install Solaris on this system. It's been a long time since I've worked on this system, and I'm having trouble booting to the Solaris cd. I can't get the system to boot to the original openbsd disk that I used to install the OS. Is this the operating systems that is preventing me from booting to cd? I can mount the cd after booting to openbsd and see the contents of the cd, I thought that might be a helpful piece of information. How are you booting the cdrom? Usually 'boot cdrom' is enough, but you may have messed up your device aliases. You could try 'show-disks', select the cdrom, then type 'boot ' followed by CTRL+Y. This should insert the full hardware address of the cdrom. Try this then if that does not work, try adding ':f' on the end. Having said that, the u5 may have an old openboot version with no show-disks support. Failing this, try a netboot? PS. The solaris installer is dumb and will probably fail to detect a disk with a BSD disk label on it. There is another step you will need to do in the 'format' utility in solaris related to the partition table. I forget the exact details. Go googling. -- Best Regards Edd Barrett http://www.theunixzoo.co.uk
Re: Sparc u5
On 31/12/2009 12:08, Edd Barrett wrote: PS. The solaris installer is dumb and will probably fail to detect a disk with a BSD disk label on it. There is another step you will need to do in the 'format' utility in solaris related to the partition table. I forget the exact details. Go googling. http://www.geeklan.co.uk/?p=61
Sparc u5
I've got a sparc u5 with running openbsd. I need to re-install Solaris on this system. It's been a long time since I've worked on this system, and I'm having trouble booting to the Solaris cd. I can't get the system to boot to the original openbsd disk that I used to install the OS. Is this the operating systems that is preventing me from booting to cd? I can mount the cd after booting to openbsd and see the contents of the cd, I thought that might be a helpful piece of information.
Re: Sparc u5
On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 21:24:04 -0800 Allen allendl...@gmail.com wrote: I've got a sparc u5 with running openbsd. I need to re-install Solaris on this system. It's been a long time since I've worked on this system, and I'm having trouble booting to the Solaris cd. I can't get the system to boot to the original openbsd disk that I used to install the OS. Is this the operating systems that is preventing me from booting to cd? I can mount the cd after booting to openbsd and see the contents of the cd, I thought that might be a helpful piece of information. Not all supported `sparc` systems support booting to CDROM, but I'd bet yours does. If you're OpenBOOT rom is set to boot to the hard disk, you'll need to change it to boot to the CD drive. Check to see if 'auto-boot' is turned on. More than anything, *READ* this: ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/4.6/sparc/INSTALL.sparc -- J.C. Roberts
