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?

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"orange" <orang...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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?

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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.

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> 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

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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.

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

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