[rescue] sparc 5 solaris installation

[Klaasjan Brand]

Hi,

I still get the "cannot mount root" failure...
It's booting from: /iommu/sbus/espdma at 5,8400000/esp at 5,8800000/sd at 6,0:d

and cannot mount root on
/iommu0,1000000/sbus at 0,10001000/espdma at 5,8400000/esp at 5,8800000/sd at 6,0:b
(type ufs)

the panic dump mentions function vfs_mountroot (obviously)

Anyway, I'm still interested in the netboot from linux/bsd option...

thanks for the advice,
Klaasjan

On Wed, 2002-04-10 at 01:55, Jeremy RJ Towers wrote:
> 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