From: Alan Dietze (adietze@easylink.com)
Date: Tue Mar 01 2005 - 17:01:19 EST
I hope this isn't a stupid question, but I can't seem to find anything
that helps on the web.
I'm attempting to install Solaris 8. The drive being used is a 9GB
Seagate and is being recycled from another machine that is no longer
being used. On the first install it said the magic number was wrong and
kicked me to a # prompt. I ran format and relabeled the drive, then
restarted the install. On the second install, everything seemed to be
fine. It went through the entire install, rebooted and sent me back to
the ok prompt. (There were no reported errors during this entire
process.) Now when I try to boot to the hard drive it gives me the
following:
{0} ok boot
Boot device: disk File and args:
Drive not ready
Can't open boot device
I've tried 'boot disk' and 'boot disk0' to no avail as well. I checked
'devalias' and they all seem to be right. 'probe-scsi-all' sees the
drive and everything. At that point I thought that maybe the drive went
bad. I tried another drive and went through the exact same process.
The result was identical. I'm not sure what I'm missing. Will I have
to completely reformat the drive or did I miss something during/before
the install? I apologize beforehand if this is Solaris 101, but any
help at all would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
- Alan
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