Re: cdrom boot reading problem

[Tim Ellis <Tim.Ellis@gamet.com>]

> When I'm in the stop-a ->  ok prompt, I used   boot cd  and it goes
> fetches inside the cdrom and it complains about:
> bad magic number in disk label
> can't open disk label package
> can't open boot device

I'm very much a Sun newbie... but shouldn't this be "boot cdrom"? The Sun
admin I know first told me "boot cd" and I got inexplicable errors, but
then he called me and said: "I think it's actually 'boot cdrom'" which
worked.

> I called the disk zoot-sparc.iso  ,   do I need to use all numbers to
> label the disk instead?

I think CDROM disc label is irrelevent. I didn't even give my CDROMs
labels, just took whatever default Easy CD-Writer for Win2k prompted.

> When I used probe-scsi-all it gives the hard drives targets 0 and 3   as
> DEC and Seagate and then target 6 being the portable
> cd device it recognized as SONY.

Apparently if the CDROM 'alias' isn't setup right, then "boot
<cdromalias>" won't work, and it's nontrivial to fix that. Is there some
Sun prom FAQ we could refer to (this to the list, not you)?

-- 
Tim Ellis
Senior Database Architect
Gamet, Inc.