Re: unable to boot sparc64 cd33.iso with Ultra-10

[jurvis lasalle <lasalle@bard.edu>]

On Wednesday, Oct 1, 2003, at 16:51 America/New_York, jurvis lasalle 
wrote:

> <insert typical newbie introduction>
> I have heard many good things about OpenBSD and was interested in 
> putting it on a new (to me) Ultra-10.
> I retrieved the cd33.iso and burned it to disk.  I couldn't boot to 
> the disk at first so I upgraded the Flash PROM to the latest 
> available.  Afterwards I still couldn't boot to the disk so I got a 
> new copy from ftp.openbsd.org (making sure that i got sparc64 .iso) 
> and burned another copy.  i went on to make two floppies as well from 
> floppy33.fs.  No booting, no how.  Here are the messages that I see:
>
> <error_msg>
> ok boot cdrom
> Boot device: /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3/cdrom@2,0:f File and args:
> Can't read disk label.
> Can't open disk label package
>
> Can't open boot device
>
> ok boot floppy bsd
> Boot device: /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ebus@1/fdthree File and args: bsd
> Bad magic number in disk label
> Can't open disk label package
>
> Can't open boot device
> </error_msg>
>
> I have verified the md5 checksums and run 'cmp /dev/fd0 floppy33.fs' 
> on the floppy.  I'd like to note that i can boot the computer from the 
> Solaris 9 installation cd's with 'boot cdrom'.  Anyone know what's 
> tripping me up?  Thanks in advance
>
> Jurvis LaSalle
>


Is there any other information that this list could use to help me 
diagnose this problem?  I'd much rather be using OpenBSD than Solaris...