I got a hold of a pair of identical X1s for a case of Becks dark. So here I am trying to load BSD on them. I dled the latest version here for sparc 64 and burnt the iso to cd.
Put in an 80 gig drive jumped to master into the #1 position in the box. Added a cdrom to position 2 jumped to slave. powered it up and tried to get it to boot from cdrom by the boot cdrom at the lom.
Got this message
While the server was booting up I got this message before I tried to specify the boot path.
I am not worried about the network link setup yet, I will deal with that later. But I am wondering why I cannot get it to boot from cdrom to load BSD onto the drive.
The reason I am starting a new thread on this is that I wish to keep all correspondence in one place. I did look at these places for info but I keep getting the same messages when I try to boot from cdrom.
http://everything2.com/title/How+to...Corrupted+Disk+Label+-+Bad+Magic+Number+error
http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=263427&page=9
http://www.pubbs.net/200904/openbsd/53425-re-openbsd-on-sun-netra-x1.html
I thank any who respond in advance for taking your time to help me with this
Fred
Put in an 80 gig drive jumped to master into the #1 position in the box. Added a cdrom to position 2 jumped to slave. powered it up and tried to get it to boot from cdrom by the boot cdrom at the lom.
Got this message
Code:
lom>boot cdrom
Usage: bootmode [[-u] forth|reset_nvram|diag|skipdiag|normal]
While the server was booting up I got this message before I tried to specify the boot path.
Code:
Bad magic number in disk label
Can't open disk label package
Boot device: net File and args:
Link hasn't comeup yet.
Will try to communicate anyway.
Network Link Setup Failed.
Please Check Cable and Try Again.
I am not worried about the network link setup yet, I will deal with that later. But I am wondering why I cannot get it to boot from cdrom to load BSD onto the drive.
The reason I am starting a new thread on this is that I wish to keep all correspondence in one place. I did look at these places for info but I keep getting the same messages when I try to boot from cdrom.
http://everything2.com/title/How+to...Corrupted+Disk+Label+-+Bad+Magic+Number+error
http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=263427&page=9
http://www.pubbs.net/200904/openbsd/53425-re-openbsd-on-sun-netra-x1.html
I thank any who respond in advance for taking your time to help me with this
Fred