Summary Re: Error booting Solaris 9 8/04 CD

From: Tim Longo (tlongo@research.avayalabs.com)
Date: Wed Aug 11 2004 - 09:21:09 EDT


Thanks to those that responded.

It seems the CD ROM drive in that particular sparc 20 could not read
the CD. Swapping the CDROM drive corrected the problem. I am now able
to boot and install from the CD. (9/04 release of Solaris 9)

On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 10:18:58PM -0400, Tim Longo wrote:
> I recently installed the latest release of Solaris 9 on my Sunblade
> 100, no problem. When I tried to install on a Sparc 20, I get the
> following error. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>
> ----
>
> <#0> ok boot cdrom
> Boot device: /iommu/sbus/espdma@f,400000/esp@f,800000/sd@6,0:d File and args:
> SunOS Release 5.9 Version Generic_117171-07 32-bit
> Copyright 1983-2003 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
> Use is subject to license terms.
> Short read. 0x0 chars read
> WARNING: '' unexpected on line 1 of /etc/dacf.conf
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