On Sat, 2005-12-17 19:42:57 +0100, Hartwig Atrops <Hartwig.Atrops@t-online.de> wrote: > On Saturday 17 December 2005 19:25, Marc Coevoet wrote: > > Ok I put a linux cdrom and try to > > boot cdrom > > > > it says: > > > > boot device;:/iommu/sbus/espdma@f, 400000/esp@f, 800000/sd@6,0:d > > > > can't open disk label > > can't open disk label package .. > > > > Can the boot see the cdrom ?? > > is the cdrom faulty ??? > > Might be useful if you provide some more information. Which type of Sun > workstation? Where did you get the CDROM? Which debian version? > > As I can see by the boot device message you try to install on an old SBUS > based sun. My old Sun (Toshiba) SCSI CD drives dont read RW media. You might > need a RO CD. Might that be your problem? Additionally, many old workstations expect CD-ROM drives to initially work with 512 Bytes per sector (while most newer drives come up with 2048 Bytes per sector). Either use an older drive then (some more expensive drives do have jumpers on their back to switch between 512 and 2048 bytes...), or use a dual-hosted SCSI bus and write a small tool to eg. use Linux' SCSI-generic driver to set the drive to 512 Bytes once it powered up. "6,0" seems to be the SCSI ID. Is this correct? Is the SCSI chain properly terminated? MfG, JBG -- Jan-Benedict Glaw jbglaw@lug-owl.de . +49-172-7608481 _ O _ "Eine Freie Meinung in einem Freien Kopf | Gegen Zensur | Gegen Krieg _ _ O für einen Freien Staat voll Freier Bürger" | im Internet! | im Irak! O O O ret = do_actions((curr | FREE_SPEECH) & ~(NEW_COPYRIGHT_LAW | DRM | TCPA));
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