Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 12:40:39 -0600 From: Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> To: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Sun Fire V20Z Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20060223123714.02654c80@mail.computinginnovations.com> In-Reply-To: <9602144B56B525BA436F5929@utd59514.utdallas.edu> References: <9602144B56B525BA436F5929@utd59514.utdallas.edu>
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I am not familiar with this Sun unit, but on other sun sparcs their boot
devices were set in the prom. As I recall the cd boot is not the same
slice/dev as the FreeBSD one. You may try to drop to the prom and try
other cd devices to boot from.
-Derek
At 12:27 PM 2/23/2006, Paul Schmehl wrote:
>Has anyone installed 6.0 RELEASE on this hardware? I can't even get it to
>boot off the CD, but it boots fine off the Sun-supplied setup CD (which
>only offers RHE and Suse as options.)
>
>I've d/l'd both discs 1 & 2 and the bootonly ISOs and burned them to CD
>(like I usually do), but they do not boot. (Yes, I'm using the amd64 version.)
>
>Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu)
>Adjunct Information Security Officer
>University of Texas at Dallas
>AVIEN Founding Member
>http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/
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