[SunRescue] Help installing Solaris 7 on SS20

[Chris Kozlowski]

"cprboot" means that the machine is configured to boot into a preserved
system state, which was presumably set using the sys-suspend command.
You need to put a dummy switch at the boot command.  For instance,
"boot cdrom -"

This will override the "cprboot" parameter which appears to have been
preset.

Chris

On Thu, 9 Sep 1999, Gregory Leblanc wrote:

> Hey guys!  I just got a new disk for my SS20, and I wanted to re-install
> Solaris 7 so that I have it on there with all of the features and options
> that I want.  I took the chassis from one of my old drives, and put it onto
> my new drive.  I've got the new drive in the bottom spot.  It's an IBM UW
> scsi drive, with an SCA connector; it's recgnized as target 3 when I do a
> probe-scsi from the "ok" prompt, so I think that I've got the drive in there
> right.  I got the solaris 7 media from sun, and I've taken the Solaris 7
> (sparc) CD and tried to boot from it.  I used boot cdrom, and I've put the
> CD into the internal CD drive.  I've also taken my 4 speed, 6 disk changer,
> and tried putting in the boot command to make it boot from LUN 0 on target 4
> (that drive), but that gives me the same error as when I use the internal
> CD.  The error that I get is  "
> boot: cannot open cprboot
> Enter filename [cprboot]:
> "
> I've looked on docs.sun.com, and what they said was that that error message
> meant that it couldn't find the solaris7 media in the CD-ROM drive.  Now, I
> know that both the internal and external drives work, I've had the external
> running off and on with my PC (changed the dip switch to enable 512 read
> dohickey) and the internal one was running on the version of solaris that
> was on the old drives.  Does anybody know what I should try to get this
> working?  Thanks,
> 	Greg
> 
> P.S. Sorry for the length of this post, just trying to give all the info
> that you might need to help me out.  
> 
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