[rescue] E420R Booting Issues

Bryan Gurney arb_npx42 at comcast.net
Thu Jul 14 21:12:20 CDT 2005


On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 08:39:54 -0400, William Enestvedt  
<William.Enestvedt at jwu.edu> wrote:

> Check the SCSI ID for the CD-ROM (which is a DVD-ROM on those, right?).
> I think that the device path to the devalias "cdrom" will beak if the
> drive's SCSI ID has changed.
>    Or perhaps I merely shifted in my chair and am talking out my ***.
> :7)
> -wde
> --
> Will Enestvedt
> UNIX System Administrator
> Johnson & Wales University -- Providence, RI
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On all the Sparc / Ultrasparcs I've worked on, the CD-ROM drive was set as  
6.  That's where openboot tries to boot from by default when you issue the  
"boot cdrom" command.



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