On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 09:24:04PM -0800, Allen 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. >
How are you booting the cdrom? Usually 'boot cdrom' is enough, but you may have messed up your device aliases. You could try 'show-disks', select the cdrom, then type 'boot ' followed by CTRL+Y. This should insert the full hardware address of the cdrom. Try this then if that does not work, try adding ':f' on the end. Having said that, the u5 may have an old openboot version with no show-disks support. Failing this, try a netboot? PS. The solaris installer is dumb and will probably fail to detect a disk with a BSD disk label on it. There is another step you will need to do in the 'format' utility in solaris related to the partition table. I forget the exact details. Go googling. -- Best Regards Edd Barrett http://www.theunixzoo.co.uk
