[SunHELP] Booting of CDROM

[darshan pai]

When i do a probe-scsi it justs dosent do anything , It just hangs there =
, doin nothing until i power it off .

DP




-----Original Message-----
From:    Peter Stokes peter at ashlyn.co.uk
Sent:    Mon, 19 Nov 2001 10:36:43 -0000
To:      sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Subject: RE: [SunHELP] Booting of CDROM


Hi

What do you get when you try probe-scsi from the ok prompt?

You should see CDROM as target 6 (assuming you have SCSI based system)

The error you are getting looks like it cannot see the drive in the expec=
ted
id slot.

Peter
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-----Original Message-----
From: sunhelp-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:sunhelp-admin at sunhelp.org]On
Behalf Of darshan pai
Sent: 17 November 2001 23:37
To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [SunHELP] Booting of CDROM


No , They are actual CDS from Sun which had come with the System ...

Darshan Pai
Computer Assistant
9B-UHC
Department of Psychiatry






-----Original Message-----
From:    Matt Bettinger mattb at houston.rr.com
Sent:    Sat, 17 Nov 2001 17:02:21 -0600
To:      sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [SunHELP] Booting of CDROM


Hello,

I have the same issue over here. 'cannot open boot device' .  Are you usi=
ng
burned cd's ?  I finally broke down and ordered 2.6 off of ebay.
apparantly burning solaris cd's is 'hard'.  Let me know if you ever get t=
hat
thing to go and vice versa.

Matt Bettinger
Houston, Texas

darshan pai wrote:

> I just got an old system and hooked it up .
> When i started the system it tries too fsck the root file system then
halts saying that the root system is inconsistent and asks for a root pas=
swd
=2E
> I do not have a root passwd .
> So i tried booting of the cdrom
> it gives an error as - Cannot open boot device and again starts fscking
the root and the same procedure said above .
> Wat can be the problem here
> Regards
> DP
>
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