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orange

2007-03-20, 1:21 pm

Please help me, after burning Solaris10 .iso image onto DVDR with
Alcohol120%, I can read its file structure, but it wont boot on
powerup. Computer ignores drive and continues to boot grub from hard
disk (BIOS is setup correctly).
Is there a boot floppy that would make sure Solaris 10 install would
start?

Doug Freyburger

2007-03-20, 7:19 pm

"orange" <orang...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Please help me, after burning Solaris10 .iso image onto DVDR with
> Alcohol120%, I can read its file structure, but it wont boot on
> powerup. Computer ignores drive and continues to boot grub from hard
> disk (BIOS is setup correctly).


When burning an ISO images I have gone through several different
paths in the burning software before I got the image to burn as an
image. It is so easy to end up dragging *.iso into the target
directory, burning it as a data disk, then wondering why it does not
boot.

> Is there a boot floppy that would make sure Solaris 10 install would
> start?



Dave Hinz

2007-03-20, 7:19 pm

On 20 Mar 2007 06:11:40 -0700, orange <orange47@gmail.com> wrote:
> Please help me, after burning Solaris10 .iso image onto DVDR with
> Alcohol120%, I can read its file structure, but it wont boot on
> powerup. Computer ignores drive and continues to boot grub from hard
> disk (BIOS is setup correctly).
> Is there a boot floppy that would make sure Solaris 10 install would
> start?


Intel, or sparc platform? If sparc, check your default boot device. If
intel, say so and someone here other than me will probably know.

orange

2007-03-21, 7:24 am


> Intel, or sparc platform? If sparc, check your default boot device. If
> intel, say so and someone here other than me will probably know.


its Intel and DVD boots fine on different computer

Dave Hinz

2007-03-21, 7:24 am

On 21 Mar 2007 00:07:53 -0700, orange <orange47@gmail.com> wrote:
>
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> its Intel and DVD boots fine on different computer


OK, so we know you have a good DVD. Sounds like your boot device isn't
pointing to your cdrom drive, but it's been nearly a year since I did
Solaris in the x86 world so I'll defer on that one.
orange

2007-03-21, 1:25 pm

I used CD1 to boot Grub, then replaced it with DVD and it worked fine,
yipee!

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