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Old 03-02-2019
I can't boot my Sun T5220 server from cdrom.
hiSmilie
i can't boot my sun server by iso solaris 10 sparc dvd that i did download from oracle site.
my hardware is sun T5220.
i receive these after running boot cdrom -s :
Code:
can't read disk lable
can't open disk lable package
ERROR: boot-read fail

whould u help me?




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Old 03-04-2019
Can you tell us what you actually downloaded? Perhaps the link would be useful here too so we can cross check.

The CD will need to have a boot-block written and enough to get it started. Perhaps an ISO image of an install CD will be enough, but the hardware would need to be supported.




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