[rescue] rescuing an ailing U10...

[Geoffrey S. Mendelson]

On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 11:03:15PM -0700, James Hartley wrote:
> but upon rebooting, I'm still get the original error.  My guess is
> that the PROM is complaining about no disklabel on the hard drive, but
> I'm trying to boot a CD in order to install an OS & update the PROM.
> I suspect this is remedial, but I haven't run into a lot of PROM
> issues before, so my PROM foo is weak.  Any suggestions would be
> appreciated as I will replace the hard drive tomorrow.


What are you trying to boot? Try a Solaris 10 CD. You can download it free
from Sun if you register as a developer.

If you are trying something else e.g. an older Solaris, Linux, BSD, etc
you may need the original CD ROM drive.

Geoff.
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