Ultra 1E CD Boot Problem
Morning all,
I've run into a rather serious issue with the old Ultra 1E I have on
my desk and could really do with some help.
Part of the work I'm doing at the moment is looking into replicating our
institution's current software based firewall solution running on i386
architecture to other platforms so as to get away from a single architecture
network.
So this Ultra 1E has had just about every falvour of Open Source OS under
the Sun(tm) capable of running a firewall of some sort installed on it. The
original internal CDROM drive in still in it and although it's not too hot
at reading CDRs burnt any faster than 4x I've always managed to boot off it
to start a net install but last week I installed OpenBSD (with no problems,
runs quite happily) and now I can't boot off the CDROM anymore for some
reason.
I've no idea if the two are connected in any way, but 'boot cdrom' from the
openprom prompt now results in the machine reseting, then I get the
following message:
Rebooting with command: boot cdrom
Boot device: /sbus/SUNW,fas@e,8800000/sd@6,0:f File and args:
There's no activity visible via the LED on the drive.
'probe-scsi' reports the following for the drive:
Target 6
Unit 0 Removable Read Only device TOSHIBA XM-5401<blah,blah,blah>
I've tried booting from the Debian and OpenBSD CDRs I have to no avail and
also some original Sun install media.
My first guess is that the OpenBSD install has overwritten some setting in
the openprom but I'm not sure what. Any help would be gratefully accepted.
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/-Gary Parker-----------------------f-Loughborough University-\
n IT Bandwidth Management Specialist - http://www.bmas.ja.net |
| Computing Services - http://www.lboro.ac.uk/computing/ o
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