[rescue] CD problems

[Sandwich Maker]

sudden thought --

the 1+ ought to have the 'new' obp mode which allows you to type
boot cdrom
and let it figure out which slice is appropriate.

" From: Peter Stokes <peter at ashlyn.co.uk>
" 
" Hi
" 
" I suspect yes, try different CD drive or DVD set to 512 bytes.
" 
" Peter
" 
" Sent from my iPad
" 
" > On 20 May 2020, at 22:24, silvercreekvalley <silvercreekvalley at yahoo.com>
" wrote:
" >
" > o;?
" > Thanks for the help with this.
" >
" > So I checked the CD ROM docs (its a Yamaha drive) and sure enough the block
" > size jumper was missing :)
" >
" > So I've installed a jumper and now, it gets a bit further.
" >
" > After
" >
" > b sd(0,6,2)
" >
" > I get
" >
" > Boot sd(0,6,2)
" > boot cannot open kernel/unix
" > Enter filename
" >
" > sometimes it says
" >
" > bootblk not UFS
" >
" > I'm using my original Solaris 2.5 CD, and did check with a couple of older
" > ones (2.3, etc) and same error.
" >
" > Interestingly Solaris 8 tells me the processor is not supported (which is
" > correct)
" >
" > Is this just a matter of trying more CD drives ? The Yamaha is circa 2000 so
" > is a writer and reader.
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