SUMMARY: Sparc 5 doesn't boot solaris 7

From: Alexandre Peixoto Ferreira (alexandref@ieee.org)
Date: Sat Apr 03 1999 - 14:22:19 CST


Hi managers,

I received some sugestions about my problem, thanks to Dave Harrington,
Jim Roy, Tim Carlson, Carlo Musante, Bruce Bowler. Bruce had the same
problem and it was related to a bad CD drive, i am trying to replace my
CD drive. But I´ve done more tests and an Solaris 7 beta refresh CD
works beautifully in the same machine. Beta works, release won´t.

I would appreciate any more sugestions and thanks for your time,

My original message:

>Hi managers,
>
>I have an sparc 5 with 64MB, 2.1GB and cdrom that boots and installs
>solaris 2.5.1 with no problem whatsoever, but when i try to install
>solaris 7 it just hangs after printing the initial kernel messages:
>
>SunOS Release 5.7 Version Generic (UNIX(R) System V Release 4.0)
>Copyright (c) 1983-1998, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
>\
>
>evne trying to boot with: boot cdrom -v
>
>SunOS Release 5.7 Version Generic (UNIX(R) System V Release 4.0)
>Copyright (c) 1983-1998, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
>Using default device instance data
>\
>
>Anybody has any sugestions.
>

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Alexandre Peixoto Ferreira
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