Re: boot sun fire v100 from an external USB cd/dvd
From: Chris Lawson (newsgroups_at_spamtrap.com)
Date: 10/31/04
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Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 23:01:00 +0100
Greg Tokarski wrote:
> I found bunch of posts but really none of them seemed to have said if
> it's possible, and if so how.
>
> I am trying to install a v100 from a DVD rom, but sonce the box comes
> with cd only and no scsi, I am trying to figure it out.
> Yes, I know I can install from cd, or boot of the network.. my point
> is judt somply knowing if I can do it from USB attached CD/DVD.
> (It's an ide cdrom put into an external usb2/firewire case).
>
> Of course I cannot see it in probe-scsi or ide, or any other (sifting
> usb did not show anythng to probe all usb), however it shows just fine
> when I boot into the OS (Sol9) (/dev/dsk/c1t0d0 - as opposed to c0 for
> internals).
>
> I tried booting off of /pci@1f,0/usb@a/storage@1:0
> The way I got this path was playing between devalias and ls...
>
> Well.. it is not working.
>
That's because OBP can't boot off USB.
How about opening up your V100 and connecting an IDE DVD up to the IDE
cable?
-- Chris
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