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I can't boot CDROM on solaris 8

Asked by cidyl in Sun Solaris, Sun JDS

Tags: cannot, open, unknown_fstyp

I got a Ultra 2 that runs Solaris 8. It is so far so good, but when I try add netscape 7 on it, I added a few patches on it. It make thing worse, I can't login from CDE and looks like system was demaged. When I login with root account (login console is good), system goes a long way and only response a simple term window without title bar (mouse is work, but because there is no title bar, I can't drag term window and move it to other place in screen). network interface doesn't work, when I try ifconfig -a, system only response lo interface without hme0 or ether card.

When I try boot it from cdrom at OBP ok prompt by: boot cdrom -s, system response:
Boot device: /sbus/SUNW,fas@e,8800000,/sd@6,0:f File and args: -s
and system hang up here, when I try put a new bootable cdrom solaris 8 installation cd in cdrom driver, cdrom led light flash three times and stopped. when I push eject button on cdrom, the cd can eject out, so I believe system not mount cdrom.

At this stage, I can press "STOP+A" back to OBP prompt.

I try boot it to disk again, and I run fsck, looks disk and file system are OK

when I try #ls /dev/dsk/, system response

c0t0d0s0 c0t0d0s1 c0t0d0s2 c0t0d0s3 c0t0d0s4 c0t0d0s5 c0t0d0s6 c0t0d0s7
c0t1d0s0 c0t1d0s1 c0t1d0s2 c0t1d0s3 c0t1d0s4 c0t1d0s5 c0t1d0s6 c0t1d0s7
c0t6d0s0 c0t6d0s1 c0t6d0s2 c0t6d0s3 c0t6d0s4 c0t6d0s5 c0t6d0s6 c0t6d0s7

I believe cdrom is on c0t6do.

I get same result from cfgadm -al, system response:
Ap_ID                  Type              Receptacle        Occupant         condition
c0                        scsi-bus         connected         configured       unknown
c0::dsk/c0t0d0    disk               connected          configured       unknown
c0::dsk/c0t1d0    disk               connected          configured       unknown
c0::dsk/c0t6d0    CD-ROM         connected          configured       unknown

I try stop volmgt by

/etc/rc2.d/S92volmgt stop

and run:

# mount -F hsfs -o ro /dev/dsk/c0t6d0s0 /cdrom
mount: /dev/dsk/c0t6d0s0 no such device
# fstyp /dev/dsk/c0t6d0s0
hsfs fstyp: cannot open </dev/dsk/c0t6d0s0>
/dev/dsk/c0t6d0s0: No such device or address
udfs fstyp: cannot open </dev/dsk/c0t6d0s0> errorno <6>
/dev/rdsk/c0t6d0s0: No such device or address
Unknown_fstyp (no matches)

with vold running:
#/etc/init.d/volmgt start
# mount -F hsfs -o ro /dev/dsk/c0t6d0s0 /cdrom
mount: /dev/dsk/c0t6d0s0 is already mounted, /cdrom is busy, or allowable number of mount points exceeded

# fstyp /dev/dsk/c0t6d0s0
hsfs fstyp: cannot open </dev/dsk/c0t6d0s0>
/dev/dsk/c0t6d0s0: Device busy
udfs fstyp: cannot open </dev/dsk/c0t6d0s0> errorno <16>
/dev/rdsk/c0t6d0s0: Device busy
Unknown_fstyp (no matches)

I believe cdrom driver also crashed, So how I can do next step?

I want update system to solaris 9 and I already installed it on other similar workstation, but I can't boot it on this machine with same cd. I don't know what I can do?

Please hlep me!
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