Boot cdrom problem - solaris 9 Ultra 10

Hello,

Firstly, I am new to solaris and sun so any help is greatly appreciated. I have spent a great deal of time reading this forum and I have not managed to fix this problem and I hope that I can include all the information needed to get a solution.

I am trying to boot from the CDROM of my Ultra 10 to install Solaris 9 on to a new blank HD. Both devices are IDE and I have plugged them into my Windows comp and they read everything fine.

I have downloaded the sol-9-u7-sparc-v1.iso and burned it at 2x using Nero on a XP machine.

The problem is that when I type 'boot cdrom' I get:

-

Boot Device: /pci1f,0/<a href="mailto:pci&#64;1" target="_blank">pci@1</a>,1/<a href="mailto:ide&#64;3" target="_blank">ide@3</a>/<a href="mailto:cdrom&#64;2" target="_blank">cdrom@2</a>,0:f file and args:

Can't open boot device

-

probe-ide gives:

-

Device 0 (Primary Master)

ATA Model:IC35L040AVER07-0

Device 1 (Primary Slave)

Removable ATAPI Model: CRD-8322B

Device 2 (Secondary Master)

Not Present

Device 3 (Secondary Slave)

Not Present

-

I tried to set a new alias to ensure that the path to the CDROM is correct:

-

ok show-disks

a) /pci1f,0/<a href="mailto:pci&#64;1" target="_blank">pci@1</a>,1/<a href="mailto:ide&#64;3" target="_blank">ide@3</a>/cdrom

b) /pci1f,0/<a href="mailto:pci&#64;1" target="_blank">pci@1</a>,1/<a href="mailto:ide&#64;3" target="_blank">ide@3</a>/disk

c) /pci1f,0/<a href="mailto:pci&#64;1" target="_blank">pci@1</a>,1/ebus/fdthree:14,3023f0

...

nvalias solboot /pci1f,0/<a href="mailto:pci&#64;1" target="_blank">pci@1</a>,1/<a href="mailto:ide&#64;3" target="_blank">ide@3</a>/<a href="mailto:cdrom&#64;0" target="_blank">cdrom@0</a>,0

-

So now I have:

-

ok devalias solboot

solboot /pci1f,0/<a href="mailto:pci&#64;1" target="_blank">pci@1</a>,1/<a href="mailto:ide&#64;3" target="_blank">ide@3</a>/<a href="mailto:cdrom&#64;0" target="_blank">cdrom@0</a>,0

ok boot solboot

Boot device: /pci1f,0/<a href="mailto:pci&#64;1" target="_blank">pci@1</a>,1/<a href="mailto:ide&#64;3" target="_blank">ide@3</a>/<a href="mailto:cdrom&#64;0" target="_blank">cdrom@0</a>,0 File and Args:

Can't read disk label

Can't read disk label package

Can't open boot device

-

I have also ran the 'test-all' command and there are no problems there at all.

If you need any more information please do not hesiate to ask I'll be checking ths post religiously!!

Thanks,

Jon

[2986 byte] By [Blaze_jc] at [2007-11-25 23:05:50]