Solaris

Got the advice below from a buddy & made the nessesary changes.

If you have an Ultra 5/10 with 2 IDE hard drives with DiskSuite mirroring and a CD-ROM, then the "cdrom" device alias in the EEPROM needs modification. DiskSuite requires one IDE drive to be the master on the primary controller and the other IDE drive to be the master on the secondary controller. This forces you to make the CD-ROM a slave on one of the two controllers. At this point, the factory "nvalias" for the CD-ROM is broken and you can't boot from CD-ROM. You just have to modify the "cdrom" device alias in EEPROM.

Factory setting (display using the devalias command:

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


If the CD-ROM is a slave on the primary controller:

ok nvalias cdrom /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3/cdrom@1,0:f


If the CD-ROM is a slave on the secondary controller:

ok nvalias cdrom /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3/cdrom@3,0:f

Now you can boot from CD-ROM using the new alias just created. For example, boot cdrom.



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this time I'm getting a slightly diffrent message ie

ok boot cdrom

Boot device: /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3/cdrom@1,0:f file and args -r

can't read disk label
can't open disk label package

can't open boot device

Could it be that you need to set the jumper for the blocksize on the cdrom?

Hi,
I am having a problem installing solaris 10 on a V100 because of the cdrom drive. I am using Jump server to do the install but, I am getting an error.

the error is:

message overflow in /dev/log .

I think it's something to do with nfs but i used it before.

Any ideas.

thanks

Boot device: /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3/cdrom@1,0:f file and args -r

can't read disk label
can't open disk label package

can't open boot device

Aren't you trying to boot from a DVD on a cdrom drive ?
Don't laugh, it happened to me recently
I had the same message and it took me a few hours before realizing what was happening

Hi,

In my case, it was the cdrom drive that needed changing. I managed to get the drive to work only to find Solaris has stopped installing half way .

Anyway the Jump server is working now and yes I do have these moment where I think to myself why this is happening to me only to find I did something wrong.

Thanks