[SPARCbook] Solaris 2.6 booting problems

[Mike Nicewonger]

Lemme know how it works.

Mike N
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael M Delaney" <mmdst23+ at pitt.edu>
To: <sparcbook at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 2:19 AM
Subject: Re: [SPARCbook] Solaris 2.6 booting problems


> 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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