[SunHELP] Booting of CDROM

[Michael Horton]

Darshan,

Before doing a probe-scsi or a probe-scsi-all do a
reset or reset-all.  If you don't you stand a good
chance of hanging the system.  What you described
sounds like the system had not been reset.


Hope this helps,

HM



--- darshan pai <darshanps at visto.com> wrote:
> 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 expected
> 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 using
> 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 that
> 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 passwd
> .
> > 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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