Booting off 5.3 CD

[Marius Strobl]

On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 04:31:08PM -0500, jacques brierre wrote:
> Hello all and happy new year.
> 
> I am running into a rather basic and frustrating problem getting off the 
> ground
> with 5.3 on an Ultra 2. Can't seem to boot off the CD... I've seen 
> references
> to various problems in the archives but not this specific one.
> 
> yes, I've made another CD... with the same result...
> I assume it's the boot-only CD... the docs don't seem to address whcih 
> cd does what.
> Does anyone know if there is a fix for this?
> 
> thanks.
> -jacques.
> 
> {0} ok boot cdrom
> Resetting ...
> 
> screen not found.
> Can't open input device.
> Keyboard not present.  Using ttya for input and output.
> 
> Sun Ultra 2 UPA/SBus (2 X UltraSPARC 168MHz), No Keyboard
> OpenBoot 3.11, 512 MB memory installed,
> ...
> ...
> Rebooting with command: boot cdrom
> Boot device: /sbus/SUNW,fas at e,8800000/sd at 6,0:f  File and args: 
> kernel/sparcv9/unix
> 
>  >> FreeBSD/sparc64 boot block
>    Boot path:   /sbus at 1f,0/SUNW,fas at e,8800000/sd at 6,0:f
>    Boot loader: kernel/sparcv9/unix
> File kernel/sparcv9/unix not found
> Program terminated
> {0} ok

Looks like someone set "boot-file" and/or "debug-file" to force
Solaris into booting a 64bit kernel (Solaris would default to a
32bit kernel on U2). FreeBSD should boot fine once you clear them.