Hello..

I am Still Learing Solaris ..

when i try to Install Solaris 8 from its CD...i pressed STOP + A and i get a OK prompt screen.

I then typed, "boot cdrom" and i am getting this error message.
" FATAL: system is not bootable, boot command is disabled."

How do we enable the boot command ?...anyhelp is appreciated.

Thanks
ram

try:

<stop-a>
{}OK> setenv auto-boot? false
{}OK> reset-all
....
...
..
.
[[resetting, and it will stop at OK without the stop key]]

now you should be able to boot from CD

gP

Cool...Its working. thanks a lot

thanks

Hello
When i'm trying to boot from cd I have got
bad magic number in disk label
Can't open disk label package
Can't open boot device

I have got a sun ultra 45 x86
and a dvd of solaris 10

Can someone help me ?

I got the same in an ultra 5 system, unable to boot the cdrom on a cdrom-drive
I used this help link, but of no use. Instead I got a duplicate devalias for cdrom and Im not sure how to remove that...eg
> ok devalias
> screen /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/SUNW,m64B@2
> net /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/network@1,1
> cdrom /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3/cdrom@2,0:f
> disk /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3/disk@0,0
> disk3 /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3/disk@3,0
> disk2 /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3/disk@2,0
> disk1 /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3/disk@1,0
> disk0 /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3/disk@0,0
> cdrom /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3/cdrom@2,0:f
> ide /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3
> floppy /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ebus@1/fdthree

http://slacksite.com/technotes/devalias.php