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i have a promblem in cdrom at insta

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i have a promblem in cdrom at install of solaris 8 on sparc {ultra5}

why?

all the others solaris are fix and work in boot installation

thnaks
 
Check to see if the CDROM drive is set to SCSI ID 6.
This is what it should be to boot from CDROM (by default )
With the system at the EPROM (OK ) prompt run "probe-scsi "
and check the ID of the CDROM.
If this is right then "boot cdrom" should boot the system up from CDROM.
 
the ultra 5 has an IDE CDROM The one thing you can't give for your heart's desire is your heart. - Lois McMaster Bujold
 
Is this the stock CD-ROM of the Ultra 5? If not, and it's been replaced with a CD-ROM for a PC, then the block sizes are different and the CD-ROM shouldn't boot (sometimes it does, but normally no). I believe Plextor is one of the few CD/CDRW drive manufacturers that make aftermarket drives that are able to switch to the block size to boot solaris. I believe the block size to boot is 2048 instead of the standard PC block size of 512. Don't quote me on that, though.

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