[SunRescue] SPARCstation 2

[Taren]

For Sparc 2's, don't use 'b cdrom'.  Use 'boot cdrom'.  I know it may seem
like a small difference, but enough to cause the miniroot to not understand,
or do, what you want.

If this doesn't work, try 'boot sd(0,6,2)', and see if that does.

Taren

> I followed the proceedure as below and also did "b cdrom" under old-mode,
> the screen output is
> Boot Device: /sbus/esp at 0,800000/sd at 6,0:c File and args:
> It stay's at this point with no activity I have left it for as long as 3
> hours and still no 
> activity.
> I am using a boxed Solaris 2.5 Server CD I have checked scsi-probe and it
> verifies cdrom using 6,0
> It may be that this CD isn't bootable, any other idea's?
> 
> also, forgive my newbie ignorance is it possible to create a boot disk from
> this CD using WIN/i386  or
> Linux on an intel. 
> 
> Regards
>