[SunRescue] Booting from CDROM on a Sparcstation IPX

[Tom Yarrish]

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Okay, I've switched the SCSI ID of the CDROM to 6, and the machine boots up to a different prompt.  During the startup it tries to mount /dev/sd3gon /usr, but errors out with a No such device or address.  Then it says fsck: No such file or directory - Unknown error in reboot fsck.
Then I get a big warning message about how the file systems have not been remounted read/write and I have to run fsck and then boot into single user mode.  Then I get a # prompt, in which I can basically do nothing.
Now there's nothing on this system I need to keep, I'm going to wipe out the drives anyway, but I want to boot of the CDROM to install Debian.  It looks like it sees all the devices I have connected (I'm assuming that esp0 refers to external scsi peripheral or something).
Again I'd appreciate any help.

Thanks ahead of time,
Tom

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On 5/8/2000 at 11:54 PM Bill Bradford wrote:

>Move the CD-ROM to SCSI ID 6 (standard for a Sun cdrom) and then
>try "boot sd(0,6,2)" instead of "boot cdrom" - you've got an old
>openboot ROM.
>
>Bill
>
>On Mon, May 08, 2000 at 09:31:03PM -0500, Tom Yarrish wrote:
>> Essentially, this is the message I get on the screen:
>> Boot Device: /sbus/esp at 0, 800000/sde at 3,0    File and args:
>> Illegal Instruction
>> Type b(boot), c(continue), or n(new command mode)
>> >
>> (so I type "boot cdrom" at the prompt)
>> Then I get:
>> Rebooting with command: oot cdrom
>> Boot device: /sbus/esp at 0, 800000/sde at 3,0    fstype 4.2
>> root on /sbus/esp at 0, 800000/sde at 3,0    fstype 4.2
>> Boot: oot
>> Boot: lookuppn failed: No such file or directory (errno 2)
>> copen: bad vn_open
>> boot failed
>> root on /sbus/esp at 0, 800000/sde at 3,0    fstype 4.2
>> Boot:
>> I do have the SCSI chain terminated on the SCSI ID 5 device.
>> If anyone could provide some assistance I would really appreciate it.
>> Thanks,
>> Tom
>
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