[SunHELP] Can't boot from Solaris 10 6/06 DVD on SunFire 240

[Alexander Skwar]

Dave K <davek08054 at gmail.com>:

> Do you have any other bootable CDs or DVDs you could use to test with?

Yes, I do. I tried the Solaris 10 DVD 3/05 and typed "boot cdrom". Same
result.

> Consider trying a "set-defaults", as mucked-up eeprom settings can
> cause all sorts of issues  (of course if you need/want custom settings
> this may be an issue).  After the "set-defaults", "boot cdrom" should
> be all you need to, assuming this is a Sun internal DVD drive we're
> talking about.

Yes, it is a Sun internal DVD drive.

> Consider burning another DVD, preferably using another brand of blank
> discs.  

As it also doesn't work with "real" DVDs, I don't think that the
media are bad.


I now did:

s11nfs2co> setdefaults
Are you sure you want to reset the SC configuration [y/n]? y
sc> reset -y

SC Alert: SC Request to Reset Host.

SC Alert: Host System has Reset
sc> console -f
Warning: User < > currently has write permission to this console and forcibly removing them will terminate any current write actions and all work will be lost.  Would you like to continue? [y/n]y
Enter #. to return to ALOM.

Sun Fire V240, No Keyboard
Copyright 1998-2003 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All rights reserved.
OpenBoot 4.11.4, 4096 MB memory installed, Serial #59201045.
Ethernet address 0:3:ba:87:56:15, Host ID: 83875615.



Boot device: disk0  File and args:
\
SC Alert: SC Request to send Break to host.

Type  'go' to resume
{1} ok boot cdrom

Sun Fire V240, No Keyboard
Copyright 1998-2003 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All rights reserved.
OpenBoot 4.11.4, 4096 MB memory installed, Serial #59201045.
Ethernet address 0:3:ba:87:56:15, Host ID: 83875615.



Rebooting with command: boot cdrom
Boot device: /pci at 1e,600000/ide at d/cdrom at 0,0:f  File and args:
Evaluating:

Can't open boot device

{1} ok

So, this didn't work either :/ I had the original Sun DVD Solaris
10 3/05 inserted.

Alexander Skwar
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