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Operating Systems Solaris not able to boot from cdrom
# 8  
Old 12-30-2008
No its CD only and drive is CD drive. My system is ultra 10
# 9  
Old 12-30-2008
when login to the OS, put the cdrom in. then df -h

does your OS detect the CDROM ? are you able to list files and directories inside the CD ?
# 10  
Old 12-30-2008
yes i can get inside the /cdrom and can see the directory by name sol_10_508_sparc, however i can see the same on when execute df -h as cdrom as mount point
# 11  
Old 12-30-2008
This means the error is with the boot command device path.


can you please give me the output of the following:

1. Format

2. ls -l /dev/rdsk/
# 12  
Old 12-30-2008
Thanks Dear,

output from format
Quote:
AVILABLE DISK SELECTION
0. c0t0d0 <WDC WD800BB-00JHC0 cyl 38307 alt 2 hd 16 sec 255> /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3dad@0,0
1. c0t2d0 < DEFAULT cyl 65533 alt 2 hd 16 sec 255> /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3dad@2,0
specify disk ( enter its number ):
and listing of /dev/rdsk/ is like below where in i have just take 1st slice all the listed disk
Quote:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 50 Sep 23 00:15 c0t0d0s0 -> ../../devices/pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3/dad@0,0:a, raw
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 50 Sep 23 00:15 c0t1d0s0 -> ../../devices/pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3/sd@1,0:a, raw
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 50 Sep 23 00:15 c0t2d0s0 -> ../../devices/pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3/dad@2,0:a, raw
# 13  
Old 12-30-2008
from the ok prompt now type this:

ok boot /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3/cdrom@1,0
# 14  
Old 12-30-2008
No luck Dear,

Same error " The file just loaded does not apear to be executable"
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