[rescue] sparc 5 solaris installation

[Jeremy RJ Towers]

Hi Klaasjan,

a boot cdrom -sv might give you some more info.  There are a few bugs 
like this one, the all boil down to a strange cdrom....

Regards

Jeremy

Klaasjan Brand wrote:

>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
>>>
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