Re: Can't read my boot CD on Ultra 5.
Hi. 've just taken delivery of a 'new' Ultra 5, but for the life of me can't boot a CD. The cd drive is an OEM model that was originally sold with the Ultra 5 and I have no reason to suspect that it hasn't been fitted since new. I suspect that my 'cdrom' alias is pointing to the wrong place, or my cd media is incompatible (cd-r). Having read several how-to's, I am still unable to fathom this one out. Can anyone lend me a helping hand? I just checked my Ultra 5: It has a DVD Rom from anywhere (has been put in by some previous owner). At openboot: devalias cdrom - /p...@1f,0/p...@1,1/i...@3/cd...@2,0:f boot cdrom - Debian Lenny CD 1= ok Debian Squeeze CD 1 16-Apr-2010 = ok both on CD-R media. After booting Debian from hard disk - from /proc: DVD Drive is attached to chanel 1 On some Ultra (10?) with IDE interface, I had to say boot cdrom2 boot cdrom did not work. Maybe that helps. Good luck, Hartwig -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100423123653.483b63b2...@mail-in-17.arcor-online.net
Re: Can't read my boot CD on Ultra 5.
Guys, my humble apologies! I've just downloaded a new image and it worked straight away. Either the image was dodgy or my burn was . Looking good, now. Cheers, Chris. On 23 Apr 2010 18:48, Jim MacKenzie j...@photojim.ca wrote: It could easily be an old enough drive that it wants good CD-R media (I have a spindle of Taiyo Yuden for that very purpose). Since the Ultra 5 uses IDE, you could put in another drive and see if that solves your problem. You can also do a device scan at the boot prom (help will help you find the command) and scan to see what device address the CD-ROM has, but since it's IDE, I expect that the PROM would expect the CD to be the slave drive on the primary channel (assuming the Ultra 5 has only one channel, which I think is the case). Jim - Original Message - From: Chris Andrew cjhand...@gmail.com To: debian-sparc debian-sparc@lists.debian.org Sent: Friday, April 23, 2010 1:43 AM Subject: Can't read my boot CD on Ultra 5. Hi, all. It's a few years since I've posted to the list, and my last Sparc was an SS20. 'v... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/k2k307203ff1004230043s981f8424lcdfe31fa03a2...@mail.gmail.com
Re: Can't read my boot CD on Ultra 5.
It could easily be an old enough drive that it wants good CD-R media (I have a spindle of Taiyo Yuden for that very purpose). Since the Ultra 5 uses IDE, you could put in another drive and see if that solves your problem. You can also do a device scan at the boot prom (help will help you find the command) and scan to see what device address the CD-ROM has, but since it's IDE, I expect that the PROM would expect the CD to be the slave drive on the primary channel (assuming the Ultra 5 has only one channel, which I think is the case). Jim - Original Message - From: Chris Andrew cjhand...@gmail.com To: debian-sparc debian-sparc@lists.debian.org Sent: Friday, April 23, 2010 1:43 AM Subject: Can't read my boot CD on Ultra 5. Hi, all. It's a few years since I've posted to the list, and my last Sparc was an SS20. 've just taken delivery of a 'new' Ultra 5, but for the life of me can't boot a CD. The cd drive is an OEM model that was originally sold with the Ultra 5 and I have no reason to suspect that it hasn't been fitted since new. I suspect that my 'cdrom' alias is pointing to the wrong place, or my cd media is incompatible (cd-r). Having read several how-to's, I am still unable to fathom this one out. Can anyone lend me a helping hand? Many thanks, Chris. -- Reasons why you may want to try GNU/Linux: http://www.getgnulinux.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/k2k307203ff1004230043s981f8424lcdfe31fa03a2...@mail.gmail.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/a32d917b1a184a5a9f2ebaf992005...@jimm
RE: Can't read my boot CD on Ultra 5.
-Original Message- From: Jim MacKenzie [mailto:j...@photojim.ca] Sent: Friday, April 23, 2010 1:49 PM To: Chris Andrew; debian-sparc Subject: Re: Can't read my boot CD on Ultra 5. ...since it's IDE, I expect that the PROM would expect the CD to be the slave drive on the primary channel (assuming the Ultra 5 has only one channel, which I think is the case). I realize that the OP has already solved the problem, but I want to point out just for the record that the Ultra 5/10 has 2 IDE channels, default configuration for the CD-ROM is Secondary Master. Cheers --- Ross Halliday Network Operations WTC Communications -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/151bc03492e46e4cb8d479e42cef7890f56...@exchange.wtc.local
