[rescue] sparc 5 solaris installation

[Jeremy RJ Towers]

Dag Klaasjan,

try boot cdrom -s (for single user) and see what you get.

suspect you are seeing something left over from a Veritas installation 
on the boot disk

Regards

Jeremy


Klaasjan Brand wrote:

>Hi there,
>
>I've acquired a Sparcstation 5 and the free Solaris 8 cd's. I'm trying
>to install it using an external SCSI cd-rom (yamaha cdr400t). The cd-rom
>is detected correctly by the Sparc 5 and "boot cdrom" starts booting the
>SunOS kernel. My problem: after loading the kernel I get the error
>message "vfs:mountroot: cannot mount root" and the machine reboots.
>I've tried:
>- changing the "block size" jumper on the back of the cd-rom (is this
>neccessary for a Sparc 5? It boots in both states...)
>- manually entering kernel/root fs parameters
>
>As a backup plan I'd like to know if anybody managed to install Solaris
>8 from a Linux/FreeBSD server? The network install server setup scripts
>provided on the Solaris cd's seem to work only on Solaris...
>
>greets and thanks in advance for advice 8),
>Klaasjan
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