Are you sure this is a Sun CDROM?  Sun CDROM drives use 512 byte sectors
(for stupid historical reasons you really don't want to know about).  All
other CDROM drives use 2048 byte sectors.  Although you might be able to
use standard 2048 sector CDROMs once the OS has booted, you can't get the
PROMs to boot from a 2048 sector drive.

On Tue, 6 Oct 1998, Christopher C. Tjon wrote:

> Ok, I have made some progress.  I think I need to start again with a little 
> different question.  This question will focus more on the SPARCstation 2 
> prom than NetBSD.  I am trying to install Solaris 2.6 from CD onto a 
> SPARCstation 2 that previously ran NetBSD-1.3.0.  My internal disks have 
> been wiped clean.  My ROM's are Rev. 2.2.  At the ok prompt, I type "boot 
> cdrom"  the system responds:
> 
> Boot device: /sbus/esp@0,800000/sd@6,0:c     File and args:
> Bad magic number in disk label
> Can't open Sun disk label package
> Can't open boot device
> ok
> 
> Can anyone help me make sense of this?  I am not sure why the disklabel on 
> the cdrom would be unreadable by the prom unless it is corrupted or it is 
> too old to understand the disklabel on the 2.6 cdrom
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Chris
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From:	sthaug@nethelp.no [SMTP:sthaug@nethelp.no]
> Sent:	Monday, October 05, 1998 11:48 AM
> To:	mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA
> Cc:	cctjon@home.com; port-sparc@netbsd.org
> Subject:	Re: FW: Question/Help?
> 
> > > 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
> 

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