[rescue] Installing OS on Sun Ultra 25 workstation

[Sean Tedio]

Please ignore me, I'm an idiot (wrong cd). I should be in bed. My apologies.

On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 11:38 PM, Sean Tedio <seantedio at gmail.com> wrote:
> So doesn't look like the cdrom is on scsi:
>
> ok probe-scsi
>
> MPT Version 1.05, Firmware Version 1.08.03.00
>
> Target 0
> Unit 0   Disk     ATA     WDC WD5000AAKS-01D05    976773168 Blocks, 500 GB
>   SATA device  PhyNum 0
> Target 1
> Unit 0   Disk     ATA     WDC WD5000AAKS-01D05    976773168 Blocks, 500 GB
>   SATA device  PhyNum 1
>
> So I tried probe-ide:
>
> ok probe-ide
>   Device 0  ( Primary Master )
>          Removable ATAPI Model: MATSHITADVD-RAM UJ-845S
>
>   Device 1  ( Primary Slave )
>          Not Present
>
>   Device 2  ( Secondary Master )
>          Not Present
>
>   Device 3  ( Secondary Slave )
>          Not Present
>
> I also tried:
> ok boot /pci at 1e,600000/pci at 0/pci at 1/pci at 0/ide at 1f/cdrom at 0,0:f
> Boot device: /pci at 1e,600000/pci at 0/pci at 1/pci at 0/ide at 1f/cdrom at 0,0:f  File and args:
> Can't read disk label.
> Can't open disk label package
>
> Can't open boot device
>
> On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 11:29 PM, Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net> wrote:
>> On Wed, 15 Jan 2014, Sean Tedio wrote:
>>
>>> So now that this system seems to be running (thanks again) it would be
>>> nice to get an OS installed. I downloaded and burned the image located
>>> here:
>>>
>>>
>>> http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/7.3.0/sparc/iso-cd/debian-7.3.0-sparc-netinst.iso
>>>
>>> I first put the image on a usb stick (using unetbootin) but I couldn't
>>> see the usb stick when doing a 'show-disks':
>>>
>>> ok show-disks
>>> a) /pci at 1e,600000/pci at 0/pci at 9/pci at 0/scsi at 1/disk
>>> b) /pci at 1e,600000/pci at 0/pci at 1/pci at 0/ide at 1f/cdrom
>>> c) /pci at 1e,600000/pci at 0/pci at 1/pci at 0/ide at 1f/disk
>>> q) NO SELECTION
>>>
>>> I installed 2 500GB SATA drives so I was also surprised to only see 1 scsi
>>> disk.
>>>
>>> So then I burned the image to a CD and tried to boot it:
>>>
>>> ok boot cdrom
>>> Boot device: /pci at 1e,600000/pci at 0/pci at 1/pci at 0/ide at 1f/cdrom at 0,0:f  File and
>>> args:
>>> Can't read disk label.
>>> Can't open disk label package
>>>
>>> Can't open boot device
>>>
>>> So now I'm stuck. While I'm here I might as well ask should I be
>>> looking at something like OpenIndiana instead of Linux?
>>>
>>
>> Possibly.  Try the disk<number of sdrom as per probe-scsi>:f instead of
>> cdrom.
>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> -Sean
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>>
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