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Old 10-04-2010
Can't boot from burned Sol 10 x86 DVD

Hi all-

I am trying to boot from a Solaris 10 DVD which I burned from the ISO I d/l from Sun(Oracle). I checked the byte counts of the image on Sun's website and my system and they are the same.

I and using cdrecord from Schilly and burning the DVD like so:
Code:
cdrecord -v dev=0,0,0 -dao ./10x_u9_910_DVD.iso

I have also tried this command:
Code:
cdrecord -v dev=0,0,0 -eject ./10x_u9_910_DVD.iso
cdrecord -v dev=0,0,0 -sao -eject ./10x_u9_910_DVD.iso

The cksum of the image is: 3586743808

When I boot the system [Ultra24] to install this image I hit the F8 key to pick the DVD to boot off the install DVD. After attempting to read the DVD, the GRUB boot menu appears.

Not quite sure what I am missing.......Smilie

Any suggestions appreciated!

---------- Post updated at 05:18 PM ---------- Previous update was at 03:03 PM ----------

Nevermind. I figured this out. I forgot to unzip the file after I downloaded it. A check of the d/l instructions sparked my decaying gray matter to life. Smilie

Last edited by bluescreen; 10-04-2010 at 04:15 PM.. Reason: i type like a monkey on a rock!
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