[SPARCbook] Connecting to a cdrom w/solaris 2.6

[Les Gondor]

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On 19/07/00, 08:14:46 PM, "mike.rapuano " <mike.rapuano at virtualscape.com> 
wrote regarding [SPARCbook] Connecting to a cdrom w/solaris 2.6:


> Hi --

> Kind of a newbie question but I thought I would be daring and ask anyway.

> I installed solaris 2.6 on a sparcbook 3gx. I'm able to connect to my 
cdrom via the openboot prom and either 'test cdrom' or 'eject cdrom'. But 
when I boot to solaris 2.6 and attempt to cd to the cdrom (with the volume 
management running) I don't see the files on the cdrom. I just see an empty 
directory (yes, there is a cdrom in the drive and data does exist).

> Any suggetions would be appreciated.

Have you tried a reconfiguration boot to make sure that the device
directory entries exist? Either 'touch /reconfigure;init 6' from a
root shell or 'boot -r' from the OpenBoot prompt should do the trick.

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