[rescue] Sun Enterprise 3500 Wont Boot Solaris

[John Hudak]

 >> Really sounds like a fuktificated optical drive.
                                            ^^^^^^^^^^^^    I need to add
this to my dictionary!!!!!  quite descriptive!
Just for the record, a wonky drive is my suspicion.   weak laser/bad
disk/sticking laser sled....
J



On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 7:08 PM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:

>   Really sounds like a fuktificated optical drive.
>
>             -Dave
>
> On 09/19/2017 07:04 PM, PhreakShow Telephone Company wrote:
> > It has Solaris 9 on the internal drives.     POST is 3.9.30
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 7:02 PM, Jonathan Patschke <jp at celestrion.net>
> wrote:
> >> On Tue, 19 Sep 2017, PhreakShow Telephone Company wrote:
> >>
> >>> Solaris 10 gives me an error that says short disk read the file just
> >>> loaded does not appear to be executable.
> >>>
> >>> Solaris 9 does the same thing
> >>>
> >>> Any ideas?
> >>
> >>
> >> Are you back-rev on firmware?  I vaguely remember getting this sort of
> >> error along the way of upgrading my E3000 from 2.6 to 9.
> >>
> >> Patch 103346-29 will get you OpenBoot 3.2 v29 and POST 3.9.29.  I'm
> sure I
> >> have that patch _somewhere_, but it's not in the places I normally keep
> >> things like that.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Jonathan Patschke
> >> Austin, TX
> >> USA
> >>
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> Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
> New Kensington, PA
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