I've had similar troubles with my Ultra 2. Disks that worked once
didn't work twice and I had to burn a new image to a fresh disk
to make it work.

The problem went away when I took the CD drive out and very carefully
disassembled it and thoroughly cleaned the lens on the optics system.

Give it a shot. It's not like CD rom drives are so expensive that you
can't get another one if you damage it.

CJ


Alfred Zentek wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to install Solaris 8 on an Ultra 5 system. Unfortunatly
> the box does not read the cdrom. The following error message is
> shown:
>
> <<< snip >>>
>
> ok boot cdrom
> Resetting ...
>
> Sun Ultra 5/10 UPA/PCI (UltraSPARC-IIi 333MHz), No Keyboard
> OpenBoot 3.15, 384 MB memory installed, Serial #10951589.
> Ethernet address 8:0:20:a7:1b:a5, Host ID: 80a71ba5.
>
> Rebooting with command: boot cdrom
> Boot device: /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3/cdrom@2,0:f File and args: -
> install
> Can't read disk label.
> Can't open disk label package
> Evaluating: boot cdrom
>
> Can't open boot device
>
> Boot device: disk File and args:
>
> <<< snap >>>
>
> 1/ The CD is ok, I've tested it on another box ...
> 2/ This is the output from devalias:
>
> ok devalias
> screen /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/SUNW,m64B@2
> net /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/network@1,1
> cdrom /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3/cdrom@2,0:f
> disk /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3/disk@0,0
> disk3 /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3/disk@3,0
> disk2 /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3/disk@2,0
> disk1 /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3/disk@1,0
> disk0 /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3/disk@0,0
> ide /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3
> floppy /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ebus@1/fdthree
> ttyb /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ebus@1/se:b
> ttya /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ebus@1/se:a
> keyboard! /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ebus@1/su@14,3083f8:forcemode
> keyboard /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ebus@1/su@14,3083f8
> mouse /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ebus@1/su@14,3062f8
> name aliases
>
> 3/ And this is the output from probe-ide
>
> ok probe-ide
> Device 0 ( Primary Master )
> ATA Model: ST39140A
>
> Device 1 ( Primary Slave )
> Removable ATAPI Model: CRD-8322B
>
> Device 2 ( Secondary Master )
> ATA Model: ST39120A
>
> Device 3 ( Secondary Slave )
> Not Present
>
> 4/ After a normal reboot the CD is mounted an accessible ...
>
> Any ideas, hints, solution are highly welcomed!
>
> Kind regards - Alfred
>
>
>
>
>
>

"Chris Johnson" <Spammerscanbite@my.shiny.metal.ass> wrote in message
news:3F0C263D.9030801@my.shiny.metal.ass


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By chance I've found another solution:

http://slacksite.com/technotes/devalias.html

But in principle you're right! Most of the time it's cheaper
to buy sth. new, instead of wastin T&M to get sth. working.

Cheers - Alfred




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