Re: U60, DVD player, and hard drive

Oscar Endre Edvardsen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.solaris.at-home
Message-ID <Pine.SOC.4.64.0901112059450.684@darkstar>
On Sun, 11 Jan 2009, Craig Dewick wrote:

> I'm fairly certain that the OBP in Ultra 60's does not support DVD drives for 
> booting.

Hush! Please don't say that, you see, mine doesn't know;-) Here you see 
it booting a 6/06 dvd:

Sun Ultra 60 UPA/PCI (2 X UltraSPARC-II 450MHz), No Keyboard
OpenBoot 3.31, 1024 MB memory installed, Serial #12903444.
Ethernet address 8:0:20:c4:e4:14, Host ID: 80c4e414.


{0} ok probe-scsi-all
/pci@1f,2000/LSILogic,sas@1

MPT Version 1.05, Firmware Version 1.06.00.00

Target 0
   Unit 0   Disk     ATA     WDC WD2500JD-57H2G15    488397168 Blocks, 250 
GB
   SATA device  PhyNum 0

/pci@1f,4000/scsi@3,1
Target 4
   Unit 0   Removable Tape     HP      C7438A          V309

/pci@1f,4000/scsi@3
Target 0
   Unit 0   Disk     SEAGATE SX173404LC      BD12
Target 6
   Unit 0   Removable Read Only device    PIONEER DVD-ROM DVD-305 1.00

{0} ok boot cdrom
Boot device: /pci@1f,4000/scsi@3/disk@6,0:f  File and args:
SunOS Release 5.10 Version Generic_118833-17 64-bit
Copyright 1983-2005 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All rights reserved.
Use is subject to license terms.
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Oscar Endre Edvardsen
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