I've been having some problems with the CD/DVD drive in my V480 server. I've decided to try to boot from the Solaris DVD (to rule out the Solaris 10 OS as a culprit).
I get the following errors when I try to boot from the DVD
I recently decided to install FreeBSD on an old 486 PC. I downloaded the iso and burnt it on my other computer. After that I went into the BIOS on the 486 to set the CD as my primary boot device.. but strangely there's no such option :confused:
And when i boot the machine the floppy drive makes... (2 Replies)
I am having problems booting to my external CD-ROM drive. When I try to run the command "boot cdrom" from my OK prompt I get the error "SCSI device 6,0 is not responding, Can't open boot device". Also, when I run the command "test cdrom", I get the error "SCSI device 6,0 is not responding, cdrom... (5 Replies)
have a problem with mandrake, it doesnt let me take more than 3 files from a cd to the hard drive at once.
ie from a cd with 100 mp3s on, I have to take 3, then eject the cd and put it back and take 3 more.
very tidious, people tell me this is a default problem with mandrake, I say there must... (1 Reply)
I'm getting started on Linux coming from Windows. I've got Red Hat 8.0 (I think 8.0) installed. I'm going to install a program from the cd-rom. I hope this isn't to stupid of a question, how do I install it? I've done some research unfortunately I don't have a lot of time on my hands and I haven't... (3 Replies)
Hi All,
I would like to mount a cd device on a sun using the mount command.
But i do not know what device the cd drive is ie /dev/sr0 or /dev/cdrom0 bla bla. I need this info to run the command...
mount /dev/blah /mnt/cdrom
so i can access the cd. but i dont know what blah in the above is.... (1 Reply)
Hello
I was installing oracle 9 release 2 on solaris 9
everything was fine but when
the installation ask me for disk 2. I cant eject
cdrom. sends me this message:
/vol/dev/rdsk/c1t6d0/orc19201_1: Device busy
I open another terminal and with root user try this eject cdrom
and nothing. I... (1 Reply)
Hello,
I need to replace a cd rom drive with a dvd rom drive in a SunFire v120 running Solaris 8. My objective is to install Solaris 10 from dvd disc. Downloading Solaris 10 cd discs is not an option since I am in Baghdad, Iraq and connection speeds are horrible. So far, all I can get is power to... (9 Replies)
Hi,
I am using a PC with XP at my office and using Solaris 9 via X-win32 (Sun WS is somewhere at server room). Is there anyway to use my pc's CDROM to install programs to Solaris 9 ..?
( they dont share the same file system. They are only connected through net. However, they both use same... (3 Replies)
hi
Am trying to mount a cdrom which has a blank cd into it, using the command:
mount -v cdrfs -o ro /dev/cd0 /mnt
Am getting this error:
# df -Ig
Filesystem GB blocks Used Free %Used Mounted on
/dev/hd4 0.50 0.19 0.31 38% /
/dev/hd2 ... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: kamaldev
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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS
installboot
installboot(1M)installboot(1M)NAME
installboot - install bootblocks in a disk partition
SYNOPSIS
installboot bootblk raw-disk-device
The boot(1M) program, ufsboot, is loaded from disk by the bootblock program which resides in the boot area of a disk partition.
The ufs boot objects are platform-dependent, and reside in the /usr/platform/platform-name/lib/fs/ufs directory. The platform name can be
found using the -i option of uname(1).
The installboot utility is a SPARC only program. It is not supported on the architecture. users should use installgrub(1M) instead.
bootblk The name of the bootblock code.
raw-disk-device The name of the disk device onto which the bootblock code is to be installed; it must be a character device which is read-
able and writable. Naming conventions for a SCSI or IPI drive are c?t?d?s? and c?d?s? for an IDE drive.
Example 1: Installing UFS Boot Block
To install a ufs boot block on slice 0 of target 0 on controller 1 of the platform where the command is being run, use:
example# installboot /usr/platform/`uname -i`/lib/fs/ufs/bootblk
/dev/rdsk/c1t0d0s0
/usr/platform/platform-name/lib/fs/ufs
directory where ufs boot objects reside.
/platform/platform-name/ufsboot
second level program to boot from a disk or CD
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
od(1), uname(1), boot(1M), init(1M), kadb(1M), kernel(1M), monitor(1M), reboot(1M), rpc.bootparamd(1M), init.d(4), attributes(5)WARNINGS
The installboot utility fails if the bootblk or openfirmware files do not exist or if the raw disk device is not a character device.
11 Apr 2005 installboot(1M)