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

[Daniel Carneiro <dancar@pocos-net.com.br>]

If you have solaris instaled you can make a miniroot partition on your 
swap partition and boot from there, and then install the system from ftp.
I just did this in an Ultra 5, and works realy well.

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Daniel Carneiro


jurvis lasalle wrote:

> On Thursday, Oct 2, 2003, at 12:28 America/New_York, jurvis lasalle 
> wrote:
>
>> 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...
>>
>
> I have received several suggestions to reburn the image.  I have 
> downloaded cd33.iso three separate times using a windows box and a mac 
> (twice).  I have burned it three times also.   I have burned many 
> iso's (that boot) using these platforms.  Is there anything special 
> about cd33.iso that I should know?  Can anyone out there vouch for 
> this image?
>
> Jurvis LaSalle
>     
> ps  I will gladly buy the official discs once I verify the OS's 
> usefulness within my organization.