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.