Cannot boot from a CDROM

Cannot boot from a CDROM

Post by Nicolay Dimitro » Sat, 18 Mar 2000 04:00:00



I have a Sun SPARC station with Solaris7; i have an external SCSI CDROM
attached to.
A can read the from CDROM drive; but i cannot boot from. The only way i
have to install/update is the boot via the network from another SPARC
station .... Can somebody help me?
 
 
 

Cannot boot from a CDROM

Post by Heiko Swar » Sat, 18 Mar 2000 04:00:00


Hi Nicolay,

try the following:
at the OK-promt type probe-scsi-all to find out the hardware-Path to the
CD-drive.
After that type boot <hardware-path>

Good luck
Heiko


> I have a Sun SPARC station with Solaris7; i have an external SCSI CDROM
> attached to.
> A can read the from CDROM drive; but i cannot boot from. The only way i
> have to install/update is the boot via the network from another SPARC
> station .... Can somebody help me?


 
 
 

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