Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 15:54:46 -0800 From: Sean Hafeez <sean.hafeez@gmail.com> To: Scott Einuis <photography@quickness.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help Sun Blade 1000 Message-ID: <7CFB8013-8DFD-4A7D-92BA-888F37CF663B@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <0IVE00LRZM8T7J40@mta10.srv.hcvlny.cv.net> References: <0IVE00LRZM8T7J40@mta10.srv.hcvlny.cv.net>
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STOP-A to the boot prom
boot cdrom
expects the CD if SCSI to be ID 6.
If the command 'probe-scsi-all' does not see the cdrom you have
termination or such issues.
On Feb 28, 2006, at 7:41 AM, Scott Einuis wrote:
> Hi People,
>
> I've been using FreeSBD for years on x386 machines, and just yesterday
> someone gave me a Sun Blade (Ultra-Sparc III) machine with an
> external SCSI
> CD-ROM. It has Solaris 8 pre-installed.
>
> My questions are..
>
> Should I keep Solaris 8 or install FreeBSD?
>
> And
>
> Since I tried to install FreeBSD already and failed, how do I get
> the Sun
> Machine to boot from the CD I created for SPARC boot only?
>
> I tried using the eeprom command and changing the boot device to
> "cdrom" and
> and I also tried the init 0 thing however when I probe-scsi nothing
> comes
> up.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
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