[SunHELP] Boot problems on Ultra1

[Alberto Lopez]

Digging up hardware i found another cdrom (the
collection now adds up to 3...all SUN cdroms)
Now there are 2 old ones (~1989) and one newer (~1992)
it seems that the more recent is not compatible,
because when i put one of the older one, it
immediately booted.

Compatibility or damaged old hardware?  Who knows,
YaST2 is now running...got to go!

Thank you very much,

Alberto



--- "Foust, Kal E" <kal.foust at eds.com> wrote:
> This might be too obvious (and I don't have any
> Ultra1 exp) but with older
> systems, I believe I ran into a similar problem.  I
> had attached the wrong
> type of CDROM as in it was not Sun friendly. 
> Cleared right up when I dug up
> an older Sun labeled device.  Seems like Sony drives
> are compatable too, if
> I recall.
> 
> Best of luck
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alberto Lopez [mailto:chupoptero at yahoo.com]
> Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 11:49 AM
> To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> Subject: [SunHELP] Boot problems on Ultra1
> 
> 
> I am trying to boot from the cdrom, but the systems
> hang on :
> 
>   Rebooting with command: boot cdrom
>   Boot device:  
> /sbus/espdma at e,8400000/esp at e,8800000/sd at 6,0:f File
> and
>  args: -v
> 
> 
> The tape light indicator goes on for a while and
> then
> shuts off and does nothing after that.  After
> waiting
> 30 or so minutes it displays:
> 
>   Can't open boot device
> 
> The same happens with the tape drive.
> 
> The box has a tape drive attached (scsi id 4), then
> the cdrom (scsi id 6) and then a disk drive (scsi id
> 0) with a terminator.
> 
> If I ask for the scsi drives by typing at the boot
> prompt:
> 
>   probe-scsi
> 
> it gives me the list stated above.
> 
> What might be occurring here?  Any help will be
> greatly appreciated.
> 
> 
> Alberto  
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