Solaris

Hi, again.

Now before you think I just ask here as soon as I have an issue... I did try to resolve this myself (reassembled the drive, cleaned the laser)

My latest issue with my Sun Ultra Enterprise 450, Is that when I try to boot from the CD

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{0} ok boot cdrom -s

I get this:

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Boot device: /pci@1f,4000/scsi@2/disk@6,0:f  File and args: -s
Bad magic number in disk label
Can't open disk label package

Can't open boot device

The disk I am using is one that came with the box, it has no scratches or dirt/dust.

I've searched around and all I can find is answers about the disk being wrong/incompatible. However I do not believe this disk to be wrong or incompatible as the disk drive in the box is A DVD drive, and this disk was actually supplied with this box.

P.S. Before I reassembled and cleaned the drive I got A "drive not ready" error.

Just to be sure, download the latest Solaris release from the Oracle website and burn it to a DVD and try to boot from that medium.

And please share the part number of the DVD drive so we can check if it is a supportet device.

Ok... Another issue, while attempting to

Code:

probe scsi-all

I get the error:

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Stack Underflow

. I power cycle the server and retry

Code:

probe scsi-all

, it now throws the error:

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Fast Data Access MMU Miss

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Should I create yet another thread about this new issue?

As for the drive model... How would I find that? I'm hoping there's A command for it, as I don't particularly feel like pulling the drive out again.

I think there is no other way then pulling the drive... also you can pull all disks and run the probe-scsi-all command again for every single disk to see if one of your disks is bad. also note, it is probe-scsi-all!

Ah, thanks... That was the problem, I forgot it was

Code:

probe-scsi-all

As for the results of it... I am very pleased, as it revealed:

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 Unit 0   Removable Read Only device    TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-M14011007

Ok, you have a bad firmware DVD drive. You'll need patch 111649-04 to update your DVD drive to a higher FW. After the update you should be able to boot from DVD.

Ok, so I've looked around, but I can't seem to find A way to apply A firmware update without being logged in as root user. I'm currently still experimenting, But from what I understand I need access to commands unavailable to me in 'ok' prompt.