Subject: Re: FW: Question/Help?
To: None <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
From: None <sthaug@nethelp.no>
List: port-sparc
Date: 10/05/1998 18:47:49
> > Boot device: /sbus/esp@0,800000/sd@6,0 File and args: /kernel/genunix
> > Bad magic number in disk label
> > Can't open Sun disk label package
> > Can't open boot device
> > 
> > It doesn't make any sense to me.  Are these messages coming from the prom? 
> 
> Almost certainly yes.  The PROM can generate messages very much like
> these when it finds a disk without what it thinks is a valid disklabel.
> Are you sure SCSI ID 6 is the disk you installed Solaris onto?
> Offhand, I'd expect that to be the CD-ROM drive.

Alternative suggestion: If this disk is an old Wren7, there is a known
incompatibility with some Wren7 firmware revisions and Sparc boot proms.
Can be worked around with a suitable Forth patch.

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no