Solaris 8 Boot from CD Problem

From: Rick Fincher (rnf@tbird.com)
Date: Mon Dec 23 2002 - 16:10:47 EST


Hi Managers,

I had a boot drive failure on a SparcStation 10 running Solaris 8 (OK, you
can stop laughing now). I'm trying to boot Solaris 8 from CD (6/00 media)
but the boot keeps crashing.

I'm using a Sun external CDROM drive, so that shouldn't be an issue.
However, the amber led on the front of the cdrom drive is doing a slow
flash (3 seconds on, 3 off) but the OS loading seems to go OK for several
minutes then dumps core on a unidentified module error of some type.

Sorry I can't be more specific, it scrolls off the screen to fast to see and
the drive hasn't been formatted yet to receive a core dump.

I updated these machines before by booting off the cdrom so I know it can be
done.

But then I had a formatted boot disk to work with. Is that required to boot
off the cdrom?

Thanks,

Rick
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