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Operating Systems Solaris not able to boot from cdrom Post 302272213 by Sun Fire on Tuesday 30th of December 2008 01:52:13 AM
Old 12-30-2008
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Originally Posted by kumarmani
Thanks Dear,

I tried the CD and its working fine in another system.

i tried all the devalias option with boot however no help.

i an enter into OS and listed the /dev/dsk and got the below as output

c0t0d# c0t1d# and c0t2d# then in the /dev/rdsk i tried listing each of them and can see two as
ide@3/dad@0,0:a
ide@3/sd@1,0:a
ide@3/dad@2,0:a

i think second is the path to cdrom . am i correct? if yes then how should i set the alias as the above on OK prompt

first type "format" so that you can know which one is the cdrom.

second step, you can simply type the whole path

see you have /cdrom@0,0:f or /cdrom@1,0:f or /cdrom@2,0:f

you can try all of them, one by one:

Code:
ok boot /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3/cdrom@0,0: f
ok boot /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3/cdrom@2,0: f


but when you typed "ls -l /dev/rdsk/ are you sure you got the same path ? like ../pci@1,1/ide@3 <== it was always like this ? on the same bus ?

Last edited by Sun Fire; 12-30-2008 at 02:59 AM..
 

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parse_dynamic_clustertoc(1M)				  System Administration Commands			      parse_dynamic_clustertoc(1M)

NAME
parse_dynamic_clustertoc - parse clustertoc file based on dynamic entries SYNOPSIS
cdrom/export/exec/sparc.Solaris_2.x/sbin/install.d/parse_dynamic_clustertoc cdrom/export/exec/i386.Solaris_2.x/sbin/install.d/parse_dynamic_clustertoc DESCRIPTION
This script parses the clustertoc file before the suninstall(1M) process is run. parse_dynamic_clustertoc is called by a modified syscon- fig script on the install CD. When parse_dynamic_clustertoc runs, it reads the clustertoc and when it encounters SUNW_CSRMBRIFF lines, it either checks the platform using the script's builtin function, or calls an external script. The script exits with a 0 if the cluster entry is included, otherwise it will be ignored. If the cluster entry is to be included, the SUNW_CSRMBRIFF =(test test_arg)cluster line is converted to SUNW_CSRMEMBER =cluster. EXAMPLES
Example 1: Checking For an SX Framebuffer The following is an example of a simple external test to check for an SX Framebuffer. The entry in the clustertoc file is shown and fol- lowing that is the script that must be placed in the install.d/dynamic_test directory. SUNW_CSRMBRIFF=(smcc.dctoc sx)SUNWCsx #! /bin/sh # # Likewise, this file is expected to live under $(TESTDIR). # case "$1" in sx) prtconf -p | grep 'SUNW,sx' 1> /dev/null;; esac FILES
cdrom/Solaris_2.x/locale/C/.clustertoc.dynamic Dynamic version of the clustertoc file cdrom/export/exec/sparc.Solaris_2.x/sbin/install.d/dynamic_test Directory that contains any additional tests cdrom/export/exec/i386.Solaris_2.x/sbin/install.d/dynamic_test Directory that contains any additional tests ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SHWPcdrom (Solaris CD) | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
suninstall(1M), clustertoc(4), attributes(5) SunOS 5.10 6 Sep 1995 parse_dynamic_clustertoc(1M)
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