From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 23 18:41:06 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E762D16A422 for ; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 18:41:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from betty.computinginnovations.com (dsl081-142-072.chi1.dsl.speakeasy.net [64.81.142.72]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1551F43D46 for ; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 18:41:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from p17.computinginnovations.com (dhcp-10-20-30-100.computinginnovations.com [10.20.30.100]) (authenticated bits=0) by betty.computinginnovations.com (8.13.5/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k1NIelUY095467; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 12:40:48 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <6.0.0.22.2.20060223123714.02654c80@mail.computinginnovations.com> X-Sender: derek@mail.computinginnovations.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.0.0.22 Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 12:40:39 -0600 To: Paul Schmehl , questions@freebsd.org From: Derek Ragona In-Reply-To: <9602144B56B525BA436F5929@utd59514.utdallas.edu> References: <9602144B56B525BA436F5929@utd59514.utdallas.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: derek@computinginnovations.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Sun Fire V20Z X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 18:41:06 -0000 I am not familiar with this Sun unit, but on other sun sparcs their boot devices were set in the prom. As I recall the cd boot is not the same slice/dev as the FreeBSD one. You may try to drop to the prom and try other cd devices to boot from. -Derek At 12:27 PM 2/23/2006, Paul Schmehl wrote: >Has anyone installed 6.0 RELEASE on this hardware? I can't even get it to >boot off the CD, but it boots fine off the Sun-supplied setup CD (which >only offers RHE and Suse as options.) > >I've d/l'd both discs 1 & 2 and the bootonly ISOs and burned them to CD >(like I usually do), but they do not boot. (Yes, I'm using the amd64 version.) > >Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu) >Adjunct Information Security Officer >University of Texas at Dallas >AVIEN Founding Member >http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/ >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"