The file just loaded does not appear to be executable
To all Sun experts:
I bought a Sun ultra on ebay which came without any OS installed on it. Here is the configuartion:
Dual 450Mhz sparcII processors
2 Gig of RAM
Dual 18 Gig SCSI harddrives
SCSI CDROM
I am having problem in booting Ultra 60 from the CD. It gives me the the message saying: "The file just loaded does not appear to be executable".
I researched a lot but couldn't get the issue resolved. Here are the troubleshooting steps done so far:
- probe-scsi-all shows CD rom drive
- envn variable for autoboot is set to false
- the Solaris installation CDs are all Sun original copies (no home burned CDs)
- I tried all three versions of installation set of solaris (10, 9 and 8) but the same message
- I can read all the CDs on a regular WinXP machine
- The only place where I can do something is the OBP -"{0} ok" prompt at this point
- Using "boot cdrom -s" or "boot cdrom" I tried may be couple of hundred times using all installation disks (Solaris 10, 9 and 8) but the same message - " The file just loaded does not appear to be executable". I can hear when CD is inserted or typing "boot cdrom" that it tries to read or do something.
- If I use a non-installation (I guess that is non-bootable too) it gives me a different error message -
Bad magic number in disk label
Can't open disk label package
an't open boot device
- I also tried swapping both the harddrives but no success.
At this point, I don't know what could be the problem - but any help will be highly appericiated. Again, I have researched on similar topic but I am not getting any close to boot the OS from the CD. I don't care if I have to wipe out anything on the harddrive and would really like to reformat so that I can staart from a fresh point.
Any one who can help me,
thanks in advance
P.S. I am a novice user to Solaris/Sun products.
