booting solaris 7 cd on a sparcstation 2
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Name: Brian
Date: July 6, 2002 at 14:53:21 Pacific
Subject: booting solaris 7 cd on a sparcstation 2 |
Comment: I have a SparcStation 2 that I salvaged and will
not boot from the internal HD right now. I am
trying to install solaris 7 from CD. I have an
external NEC multispin 4 on SCSI ID 6, and I
know it reads the drive when I try and boot from it
because the LCD displays it. But, when I type:
boot cdrom
b cdrom
or
b /sbus/esp/sd@6,0:c
it comes back with this error:
Bad magic number in disk label
Can't open Sun disk label package
Can't open boot device any ideas? i am new to installing any OS on a
Sun box, and will take any suggestion or advice.
Thanks in advance!
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Response Number 1
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Name: esu (by Raj)
Date: July 6, 2002 at 16:25:36 Pacific
Subject: booting solaris 7 cd on a sparcstation 2 |
Reply: (edit)hi,
you have to chnage the jumpers on your cdrom and give these command on ok prompt:
# probe-scsi
your cdrom must have then the target 6 if not try to change the jumpers. good luck !
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Response Number 2
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Name: stonent
Date: July 6, 2002 at 23:05:05 Pacific
Subject: booting solaris 7 cd on a sparcstation 2
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Reply: (edit)bad magic number usually means that the CD-rom is not Sun compatable. Try a plextor or toshiba. Also some drives have a 512/2048 jumper change the setting on it.
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Response Number 3
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Name: voigt
Date: July 8, 2002 at 07:27:35 Pacific
Subject: booting solaris 7 cd on a sparcstation 2
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Reply: (edit)also depending on what is wrong with your boot harddrive, you might have to unplug it .. I had a drive that died and couldn't get the cd rom to boot until I disconnected the failed drive... I guess it was screwing up the bus some how.... FWIW
~voigt
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Response Number 4
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Name: johnny agarwal
Date: August 14, 2002 at 22:58:26 Pacific
Subject: booting solaris 7 cd on a sparcstation 2
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Reply: (edit)
Is this CD Sun original or a CDR???? hmmmmmm!
badmagic number sounds like a bad copy to me!!! s--- man I am out of job !!!!! I need a job
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