I download solaris 10 from sun web sites with PC, then unzip and write them to CDs.
I put the first CD (v1) to Sun's CD Rom. In ok, I type boot cdrom, but the screen shows Can't Open boot device. The CD rom run (the green light on). I am not sure the problems are on my downloaded CD or on the CD Rom. Is there any Sun senior having suggestions what should do, I will appreciate.
It sounds like your bios doesn't detect your CD rom driver.
There's an option on it to see IDE devices (I don't remember what)
Is you cdrom detected while running another operating system?
Besides, make sure you properly downloaded solaris zip files by checking the MD5sums
'cdrom' in the openboot parameters is not mapped to your cdrom device
look on the manual of your machines on how to map 'cdrom' to the correct position of your cdrom.
If it is on the 1?or 2?channel and if it is master or slave it changes.
All made you an example, in a ultra 10 if you realize a mirror 1 putting a HD on IDE1 and a HD on IDE2, you move your CDROM as slave on IDE2, then you have to remap the cdrom device writing in openboot:
nvalias cdrom /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3/cdrom@3,0:f
and if you have it as slave on the IDE 1 you have to type:
nvalias cdrom /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3/cdrom@1,0:f
If it is on a scsi machines if I'm not wrong 'cdrom' is mapped on the ID=3 but you can change your setting in the env parameters.
Anyway the key is to have mapped correctly 'cdrom' to the correct position of your phisical device or when you type 'boot cdrom' the machines try to start from the wrong device
Look at the Sun manual of your machines
