On 9/28/06, Kyle J. McDonald <kjmcdonald at gmail.com> wrote: > WEll, I guess the moderator is really busy, because more replies I've emailed > have yet to show up. I guess I 'll stick with the web interface from now on. > > Something is definitely wrong here. But I'll be damned if I can figure it out. > > I get the same results no matter what I try. > > I've tried the SB100 IDE CDROM in the U10, The U10 IDE CDROM in the SB100. > I've tried a PC IDE CDROM in both. > > I've tried them all as master and as slave, and on both IDE0 and IDE1. > I've tried it with and without the IDE Hard Drive plugged in. > > I've tried them with NV_46 CD's I've burned (from most combinatiosn of 2 > different burners and 3 different burning programs.) and with a set of > original S8 00/06 CD's I finally managed to track down. > > I always get the same result: > > Can't read disk label > Can't open disk label package > > Can't open boot device > > 'probe-ide' always shows them as there. > The CDROM drive light lights up when the boot attempt is made. > > I even triesd to boot from the Prom Update CD in the S8 CD book. Same results. > > I guess I'm back to thinking it's a HW problem, but I"m not sure where to > start, and Something in me keeps saying: > > "But how coudl both of those computers from different people in different > parts of the company, and different design's both have the same problem?" > > Can anyone tell me where on the CD the OBP looks to find the label? > > UUUGGGHHH! This makes no sense!!!! > > -Kyle >
Hi Kyle, don't know if I can be of any real help here but I'll just share my experience. I have an Ultra 60 on which I've installed Solaris Express. I went through the same issue you are describing and, similarly, I couldn't figure out what the problem was initially. At some point I was really afraid it could be a HW problem: a fairly big amount of wasted ???. I kept trying anyway and eventually I've managed to burn a CD set that was accepted by the workstation. The CDs were burnt with the simplest program, without even the faintest fancy feature, minimum speed! I'm sure I did nothing to fix a possible HW issue so my conclusion was that my w.s. is absolutely very picky when it comes to burnt CDs. The only suggestion I have is, can't you try with an official CD? Even an older version should give you at least the confidence that the system is still operative. G'luck, -mw
