[SunRescue] Help installing Solaris 7 on SS20

[Gregory Leblanc]

Awesome, that looked like it worked this morning.  I'll be doing my install
of Solaris this weekend, so expect a bunch of questions.  Thanks for your
help,
	Greg

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Kozlowski [mailto:razer at ultra.darkcartel.com]
> Sent: Friday, September 10, 1999 6:19 AM
> To: Sun Rescue List (E-mail)
> Cc: Sun Help List (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: [SunRescue] Help installing Solaris 7 on SS20
> 
> 
> "cprboot" means that the machine is configured to boot into a 
> preserved
> system state, which was presumably set using the sys-suspend command.
> You need to put a dummy switch at the boot command.  For instance,
> "boot cdrom -"
> 
> This will override the "cprboot" parameter which appears to have been
> preset.
> 
> Chris
> 
> On Thu, 9 Sep 1999, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> 
> > Hey guys!  I just got a new disk for my SS20, and I wanted 
> to re-install
> > Solaris 7 so that I have it on there with all of the 
> features and options
> > that I want.  I took the chassis from one of my old drives, 
> and put it onto
> > my new drive.  I've got the new drive in the bottom spot.  
> It's an IBM UW
> > scsi drive, with an SCA connector; it's recgnized as target 
> 3 when I do a
> > probe-scsi from the "ok" prompt, so I think that I've got 
> the drive in there
> > right.  I got the solaris 7 media from sun, and I've taken 
> the Solaris 7
> > (sparc) CD and tried to boot from it.  I used boot cdrom, 
> and I've put the
> > CD into the internal CD drive.  I've also taken my 4 speed, 
> 6 disk changer,
> > and tried putting in the boot command to make it boot from 
> LUN 0 on target 4
> > (that drive), but that gives me the same error as when I 
> use the internal
> > CD.  The error that I get is  "
> > boot: cannot open cprboot
> > Enter filename [cprboot]:
> > "
> > I've looked on docs.sun.com, and what they said was that 
> that error message
> > meant that it couldn't find the solaris7 media in the 
> CD-ROM drive.  Now, I
> > know that both the internal and external drives work, I've 
> had the external
> > running off and on with my PC (changed the dip switch to 
> enable 512 read
> > dohickey) and the internal one was running on the version 
> of solaris that
> > was on the old drives.  Does anybody know what I should try 
> to get this
> > working?  Thanks,
> > 	Greg
> > 
> > P.S. Sorry for the length of this post, just trying to give 
> all the info
> > that you might need to help me out.  
> > 
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