SunBlade 150 "boot cdrom" problem
Got a SunBlade 150. Trying to install Solaris 8 from CD.
In OBP, when I do a "boot cdrom", I get:
Boot device: /<a href="mailto:pci@1f" target="_blank">pci@1f</a>,0/<a href="mailto:ide@d" target="_blank">ide@d</a>/<a href="mailto:cdrom@1" target="_blank">cdrom@1</a>,0:f File and args:
Can't read disk label.
Can't open disk label package
Evaluating: boot cdrom
Can't open boot device
Currently I've got a disk and the cd-rom on the same factory IDE cable, both jumpered for "Cable select". "probe-ide" recognizes both of them:
Device 0( Primary Master )
ATA Model: WDC WD400BB-22DEA0
Device 1( Primary Slave )
Removeable ATAPI Model: LTN486S
Device 2( Secondary Master )
Not Present
Device 2( Secondary Slave )
Not Present
My OBP firmware version is 4.6.9. I'm wondering if a firmware upgrade might be in order (latest version appears to be 4.10.6), but I'm not sure how one accomplishes a firmware upgrade from floppy.
Any help is appreciated.
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zsabbas] at [2007-12-17]
You can't upgrade the firmware from the floppy. Is it a known working disc? Is it Disc 1 of 2? You can also reset the PROM so that the defaults get restored, in case the alias for CDROM was changed.
I have most often found that whenever you see:
<i>Can't read disk label.
Can't open disk label package</i>
then the media isn't bootable or at least cannot be read by the drive with any success.
As Ian suggested, if you are using commercially produced media, then boot from disk #1 of 2.
( If you are using your own CDR media, then burn it all over gain at a slow speed, such as 4x. )
I can read the CD from other machines, and it's the genuine, original "Solaris 8 software, 2/02, Disk 1 of 2, SPARC platform edition" disk.
I don't see the green light on the drive ever go on (except when I first put the disk in). It looks like the system never actually tries to read the CD. It gives the same error message whether the disk is in the drive or not.
I reset the PROM ("set-defaults"), and swapped in a different CD drive with the same result. Also tried it as the master on the second IDE cable. No luck.
Can I do a firmware upgrade without a working install? Are there any diagnostics that might help? "test cdrom" does nothing and "test ide" returns successfully.
Thanks
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I don't see the green light on the drive ever go on (except when I first put the disk in).
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Correction, the drive light does actually flicker for a fraction of a second.
Try another media CD, this seems to be damaged. Only to read this CD isn't enought, it need to be bootable.
You can't do a firmware upgrade without Solaris installed.
And you need to modify the alias in order to boot from another target ID (as the master on the second IDE cable). Or use:
boot /<a href="mailto:pci@1f" target="_blank">pci@1f</a>,0/<a href="mailto:ide@d" target="_blank">ide@d</a>/<a href="mailto:cdrom@2" target="_blank">cdrom@2</a>,0:f
Good luck!
Are any of the other disks in the Solaris 8 distro bootable? I tried the "Solaris 8 software Disk 2 of 2" and the "Solaris 8 Installation" disk, as well as (in sheer desperation) an old "Solaris 2.6 Software 5/98" disk. Nothing works.
I'm back to running the CD as the primary slave drive. "probe-ide" sees both drives. Both hard drive and CD are jumpered for "cable select" and I'm using the factory cable. My cdrom alias is mapped to "/<a href="mailto:pci@1f" target="_blank">pci@1f</a>,0/<a href="mailto:ide@d" target="_blank">ide@d</a>/<a href="mailto:cdrom@1" target="_blank">cdrom@1</a>,0:f".
Solaris 8 Installation and Solaris 8 software Disk 1 of 2 are both bootable.
Solaris 2.6 is not supported on this machine.
Try to use another IDE cable, and try to jumper HDD & CD as master & slave. Be carreful, Western Digital drives have different jumper configs for master with or without slave (single master or master with slave).
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I can read the CD from other machines, and it's the genuine, original "Solaris 8 software, 2/02, Disk 1 of 2, SPARC platform edition" disk.
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Hi,
I have got exactly same error, did u resovle it, please let me know.
Got a SunBlade 150. Trying to install Solaris 8 from CD.
In OBP, when I do a "boot cdrom", I get:
Boot device: /<a href="mailto:pci@1f" target="_blank">pci@1f</a>,0/<a href="mailto:ide@d" target="_blank">ide@d</a>/<a href="mailto:cdrom@1" target="_blank">cdrom@1</a>,0:f File and args:
Can't read disk label.
Can't open disk label package
Evaluating: boot cdrom
Can't open boot device
Currently I've got a disk and the cd-rom on the same factory IDE cable, both jumpered for "Cable select". "probe-ide" recognizes both of them:
Device 0 ( Primary Master )
ATA Model: WDC WD400BB-22DEA0
Device 1 ( Primary Slave )
Removeable ATAPI Model: LTN486S
Device 2 ( Secondary Master )
Not Present
Device 2 ( Secondary Slave )
Not Present
Thanks a lot
Riz
riz at 2007-7-5 >
I had the same problem and this is how I got around it.
From the OBP I typed;
nvalias cdrom /<a href="mailto:pci@1f" target="_blank">pci@1f</a>,0/<a href="mailto:ide@d" target="_blank">ide@d</a>/<a href="mailto:cdrom@1" target="_blank">cdrom@1</a>,0:f
nvstore
boot cdrom
This worked for me, I hope it does for you also.
... the CD drives that come with the Blades are pretty crappy. I've seen that at least 4 times, and 4 out of 4 is the CD drive that has gone bad, one of those being in a Blade 100 that I had. Changed the CD drive with an Acer drive that I bought online, and had not problems after that.
