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Re: How can i boot *anything* on Sun Blade 100?



On Mon, 2017-04-10 at 19:09 +0200, transmail wrote:
> And which cable is correct for this machine? Because now "boot cdrom"
> works with 80 pin too.
> 
> It's impossible to plug the blue connector to the motherboard. The
> DVD's and the HDD's connector is too far from each other then. I need
> to put the middle (gray) one to the motherboard. When i got the
> machine it was that way.

Okay clear, stop searching any further. Because this the problem. The
blue cable connector got to be connected to the motherboard, indeed.

> It did not make any change if i mapped the DVD as slave or CS. What
> mattered that i had to put the DVD on the same bus as the HDD. If the
> DVD is alone then it only appears if it's the master.
> 
> I'll get a serial cable.

Thanks,

Frans van Berckel


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