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Quote:> I am having trouble trying to use a Seagate ST15230N as a boot disk on a
> SPARC-10 running Solaris 2.5.1.
> I can format it and it appears to load the Initial OS Load.  Upon reboot I
> get "bootblk: can't find the boot program" error message.  Any ideas???

hth, mp.
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5.60) I installed Solaris on a big disk, but now booting fails.

    Due to limitations in Openboot PROMs, you can't boot any of the 32bit
    SPARCs (sun4c, sun4m, sun4d) from a root partition that has parts lying
    beyond the 2GB mark on a SCSI disk.

    On systems with really old PROMs (revision 2.5 or less) you need to
    make the root partition smaller than 1GB.

    The Ultra PROMs are capable of this, but Solaris prior to version 2.6
    also has a bug which effectively prevents Ultras from booting from
    large root partitions too.  Patch 103640-08 or later fixes this
    for Solaris 2.5.1, so later 2.5.1 HW releases should be OK too.

    Typical error messages include:

    bootblk: can't find the boot program
    boot: cannot find misc/krtld
    Short read.  0x2000 chars read
    Read error.

    --- end of excerpt from the FAQ

The most recently posted version of the FAQ is available from
<http://www.wins.uva.nl/pub/solaris/solaris2/>

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