For some reason my Netra 210 will not boot from a cdrom drive. This is
how I'm trying to do it:
Boot up
During boot hi Stop+A
At the ok prompt I enter: boot cdrom -s
Then it comes back with the following as a prompt:
Enter Filename [kernel/sparcv9/unix]

Nothing I do will allow it past that. Can anyone help? I need this
system back up ASAP!

Thank you

Fritz

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<78800ba3-9e14-44e6-8570-973773651fc4@71g2000hse.googlegroups.com>,
onthefritz <fritzfreund@gmail.com> wrote:

> For some reason my Netra 210 will not boot from a cdrom drive. This is
> how I'm trying to do it:
> Boot up
> During boot hi Stop+A
> At the ok prompt I enter: boot cdrom -s
> Then it comes back with the following as a prompt:
> Enter Filename [kernel/sparcv9/unix]
>
> Nothing I do will allow it past that. Can anyone help? I need this
> system back up ASAP!
>
> Thank you
>
> Fritz

Where did you get the CD disk you're trying to boot from? Is it a SUN
install disk or something you burned?

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onthefritz wrote:
> For some reason my Netra 210 will not boot from a cdrom drive. This is
> how I'm trying to do it:
> Boot up
> During boot hi Stop+A
> At the ok prompt I enter: boot cdrom -s
> Then it comes back with the following as a prompt:
> Enter Filename [kernel/sparcv9/unix]
>
> Nothing I do will allow it past that. Can anyone help? I need this
> system back up ASAP!
>
> Thank you
>
> Fritz

What CD are you trying to boot from? If it's a CD you got from Sun,
it's probably not the problem. If it's one you burned from a download,
it could just be that the drive doesn't like that CD! If you are
burning your own CD's, I'm told that it some times helps to burn the CD
at the slowest available speed.

On Feb 21, 4:47 pm, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilber...@comcast.net>
wrote:
> onthefritz wrote:
> > For some reason my Netra 210 will not boot from a cdrom drive. This is
> > how I'm trying to do it:
> > Boot up
> > During boot hi Stop+A
> > At the ok prompt I enter: boot cdrom -s
> > Then it comes back with the following as a prompt:
> > Enter Filename [kernel/sparcv9/unix]
>
> > Nothing I do will allow it past that. Can anyone help? I need this
> > system back up ASAP!
>
> > Thank you
>
> > Fritz
>
> What CD are you trying to boot from? If it's a CD you got from Sun,
> it's probably not the problem. If it's one you burned from a download,
> it could just be that the drive doesn't like that CD! If you are
> burning your own CD's, I'm told that it some times helps to burn the CD
> at the slowest available speed.

I have tried 3 CDs. All Sun provided. Fist is the Solaris9 Install
disk. The second is the Solaris9 Software disk 1. Third is a Solaris7
install disk. None of them work. I tried to boot from disk on two
different Netra 210 boxes and they both give me the same issue.

Fritz wrote:
> On Feb 21, 4:47 pm, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilber...@comcast.net>
> wrote:
>
>>onthefritz wrote:
>>
>>>For some reason my Netra 210 will not boot from a cdrom drive. This is
>>>how I'm trying to do it:
>>>Boot up
>>>During boot hi Stop+A
>>>At the ok prompt I enter: boot cdrom -s
>>>Then it comes back with the following as a prompt:
>>>Enter Filename [kernel/sparcv9/unix]
>>
>>>Nothing I do will allow it past that. Can anyone help? I need this
>>>system back up ASAP!
>>
>>>Thank you
>>
>>>Fritz
>>
>>What CD are you trying to boot from? If it's a CD you got from Sun,
>>it's probably not the problem. If it's one you burned from a download,
>>it could just be that the drive doesn't like that CD! If you are
>>burning your own CD's, I'm told that it some times helps to burn the CD
>>at the slowest available speed.
>
>
> I have tried 3 CDs. All Sun provided. Fist is the Solaris9 Install
> disk. The second is the Solaris9 Software disk 1. Third is a Solaris7
> install disk. None of them work. I tried to boot from disk on two
> different Netra 210 boxes and they both give me the same issue.

That suggests that the problem is hardware; e.g. the CDROM drive, its
cable or the SCSI or EIDE controller. Do you have an O/S installed that
you can use to test the drive? Is the drive in question one that was
supplied/installed by Sun?

onthefritz <fritzfreund@gmail.com> wrote:
> For some reason my Netra 210 will not boot from a cdrom drive. This is
> how I'm trying to do it:
> Boot up
> During boot hi Stop+A
> At the ok prompt I enter: boot cdrom -s
> Then it comes back with the following as a prompt:
> Enter Filename [kernel/sparcv9/unix]

> Nothing I do will allow it past that. Can anyone help? I need this
> system back up ASAP!

I remember seeing this message before, I think it might come from trying
to install on a system that the CD doesn't have support for.

Is the Solaris 9 cd at least 9/05 version?

If it's older then September 2005 then the CD doesn't support that
system.

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Barry Keeney
Chaos Consulting
email barryk< AT >chaoscon.com

"Rap is Square Dancing gone terribly, terribly Wrong...."

On Feb 22, 9:19 am, Barry Keeney <bar...@swcp.com> wrote:
> onthefritz <fritzfre...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > For some reason my Netra 210 will not boot from a cdrom drive. This is
> > how I'm trying to do it:
> > Boot up
> > During boot hi Stop+A
> > At the ok prompt I enter: boot cdrom -s
> > Then it comes back with the following as a prompt:
> > Enter Filename [kernel/sparcv9/unix]
> > Nothing I do will allow it past that. Can anyone help? I need this
> > system back up ASAP!
>
> I remember seeing this message before, I think it might come from trying
> to install on a system that the CD doesn't have support for.
>
> Is the Solaris 9 cd at least 9/05 version?
>
> If it's older then September 2005 then the CD doesn't support that
> system.
>
> --
> Barry Keeney
> Chaos Consulting
> email barryk< AT >chaoscon.com
>
> "Rap is Square Dancing gone terribly, terribly Wrong...."

That was the issue. I had 4/03. Thank you all for your help! ....I'm
starting to not hate Sun quite as much!
Thank you

Fritz