cannot access cdrom drive at boot
From: Barton Chittenden (nospam_at_iglou.com)
Date: 10/04/04
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Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 12:06:27 -0700
I'm trying to do a fresh install on an Ultra 5. I don't have the root
password to the box, so it's pretty much a doorstop unless I can get the
cdrom (or the floppy) to boot.
The cdrom is an IDE drive, installed as master on the second ide port.
I type
probe-ide
from the ok prompt, and I can see the hard drive on Device 0, but no
other devices are present.
when I type
boot cdrom
from the ok prompt, the machine will reboot, and I will eventually see
"Can't open boot device". The activity light on the cdrom drive does not
light up.
This seems to indicate to me that I've got a bad cdrom drive, but maybe
there's something that I've missed. Is there a way of forcing the
machine to recognize the cdrom drive in OpenBoot?
Thanks,
--Barton
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