On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 21:24:04 -0800 Allen <allendl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've got a sparc u5 with running openbsd. I need to re-install > Solaris on this system. It's been a long time since I've worked on > this system, and I'm having trouble booting to the Solaris cd. I > can't get the system to boot to the original openbsd disk that I used > to install the OS. > > Is this the operating systems that is preventing me from booting to > cd? I can mount the cd after booting to openbsd and see the contents > of the cd, I thought that might be a helpful piece of information. > Not all supported `sparc` systems support booting to CDROM, but I'd bet yours does. If you're OpenBOOT rom is set to boot to the hard disk, you'll need to change it to boot to the CD drive. Check to see if 'auto-boot' is turned on. More than anything, *READ* this: ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/4.6/sparc/INSTALL.sparc -- J.C. Roberts
