[SPARCbook] Solaris 2.6 booting problems

[Michael M Delaney]

Ok, im sorry about that. I thought if the cd did'nt support 512k blocks,
it woun't boot at all.  I'm going to try to track down another cd drive
tomorrow, or maybe look into network booting again.

On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Mike Nicewonger wrote:

> Have you tried another? Didn't we go through this last week? Typically what
> happens is the boot loader will start to load, you're thinking cool this is
> working, then it just stops, says something silly like cannot find media.
> this is consistent with a CD-ROM that does not support 512 byte block.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Mike N
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael M Delaney" <mmdst23+ at pitt.edu>
> To: <sparcbook at sunhelp.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 12:04 AM
> Subject: Re: [SPARCbook] Solaris 2.6 booting problems
> 
> 
> > I am assuming that its a sparc bootable cdrom, since it does actually
> > boot and dies at a later time.  I also was once able to install Netbsd
> > with it.  It could have been an accident when it worked however ....
> > Its an aiwa scsi1 1x model.
> >
> > On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Mike Nicewonger wrote:
> >
> > > What kind of CD-ROM? Is it Sparc bootable?
> > >
> > > Mike N
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Michael M Delaney" <mmdst23+ at pitt.edu>
> > > To: <sparcbook at sunhelp.org>
> > > Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 10:47 PM
> > > Subject: [SPARCbook] Solaris 2.6 booting problems
> > >
> > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > > I'm having problems booting Solaris 2.6 Server on my sparcbook, i type
> > > > "boot cdrom" and it looks like its starting to work, but then it tells
> me
> > > > that its unable to mount root on /iommu....../sd at 6,0:b ; says "Panic:
> > > > vfs_mountroot:  cannot mount root" , and then it reboots.  Any Ideas?
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Mike
> > > >
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