[COLUG] Solaris boot question RESOLVED

[Scott Merrill]

Diyab wrote:
> Scott Merrill wrote:
>> Executing `boot cdrom` and `boot cdrom -r` always return "Failed to open
>> boot device".  The CD drive shows no sign of activity -- no spin up, no
>> flashing indicator light -- so I'm not sure if the drive is actually
>> being accessed in any way.  I've tried both Solaris 10 and Solaris 8
>> media.
> 
> Is the target path of the cdrom device alias the same scsi ID as what
> the drive is actually set to?

No, it was not!

Following Rob's recipe, I was able to determine the correct path to the
CDROM.

`boot cdrom` was looking for
 /pci at 8,700000/scsi at 6/disk at 6,0:f
However, `probe-scsi-all` revealed that the CDROM was at
 /pci at 8,700000/scsi at 6,1/disk at 6,0:f

Feeding the latter to the `boot` command got my Solaris installation
running.

Thanks guys!!

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