There will not be any errors; all the system is telling you is that the sr driver does not recognize anything other than Sony and Hitachi (SunOS 4.1.3). You can try to correct this if you are into hacking:
"If you've got the source of the SunOS CDROM device driver (sr.c), you could add a line to the sr_drivetypes[] array of structures and specify the Toshiba and its (SCSI) capabilities. "
[courtesy adrie@ica.philips.nl (Adrie Koolen)]
9: What do you do if you have an old Sun that doesn't know about boot
cdrom (or CD-ROMs for that matter)?
The generic practice is ">b sd(,30,1)"; that seems to have
worked in mant cases. At issue is where on the disc Sun has placed the
various architectures. There has been some `Net debate about this. I
found this table, but cannot confirm it:
0 .. mountable HSFS format
1 .. sun4 bootable image > b sd(,18,1)
2 .. sun4c bootable image > b sd(, 6,2)
3 .. sun3x bootable image > b sd(,30,3)
4 .. sun3 bootable image > b sd(,30,6)
[courtesy Yutaka.Matsumoto@Japan.Sun.COM (MATSUMOTO Yutaka - Nihon Sun
Engineer) and doleh@mcs.kent.edu (Yaser Doleh)]
my own experience contradicts this, incidentally: my Sun 4/110 booted with b sd(0,30,1). Please clarify this if you can.
10. Can I make a bootable tape from a CD?
There doesn't seem to be a procedure for making SunOS 5 bootable tapes, so
this information only applies to SunOS 4. (If anyone knows of a way to make
bootable tapes from newer Solaris releases - the PROM supports booting tapes
- please let me know - Martin).
For SunOS, yes. Sun no longer offers SunOS on tape, but clone
manufacturers do [courtesy Carl Mueller
Select the appropriate MUNIX file for your KARCH:
The only way I know to copy MUNIX off of CDROM is using SunOS 5.x
(Solaris 2.x). If some clever person knows how to do this using
SunOS 4.1.x, I would like to hear from you.
Note: The 4.1.3 CDROM MUNIX differs from the 4.1.1 QIC MUNIX
in that the CDROM MUNIX has the MUNIX kernel and the MUNIX filesystem
combined together. In other words, you no longer need to load the
MUNIX filesystem after booting the MUNIX kernel.
Mount your CDROM and select the appropriate miniroot for your KARCH:
Build your QIC-150 tape as follows:
The procedure to boot MUNIX from tape is as follows:
The procedure to boot the just loaded miniroot is as follows:
[Courtesy markb@elen.utah.edu]
As mentioned above in the brief review of the AppleCD 300, the
Apple is an OEM Sony drive, just as the SunCD is. Consequently, it is
the correct vendor (Sony) and it will respond to the MODE
SELECT command from the system. Thus, when the Apple is brought
on-line, it tells the system that it uses 2048 bytes/block, which
generates an error. the system responds by telling the drive to
switch to 512 bytes/block. Thus, you can mount and boot from an
AppleCD. Contrast this to what happens with a NEC or Toshiba drive:
the command is ignored, so it stays in the improper mode, causing the
boot or mount to fail.
(Mike adds: Are there more drives like this?)
karch file CDROM partition sun4 MUNIX-sun4-4.1.3 1 sun4c MUNIX-sun4c-4.1.3 2 sun4m MUNIX-sun4m-4.1.3 3
karch file sun4 /cdrom/export/exec/kvm/sun4_sunos_4_1_3/miniroot_sun4 sun4c /cdrom/export/exec/kvm/sun4c_sunos_4_1_3/miniroot_sun4c sun4m /cdrom/export/exec/kvm/sun4m_sunos_4_1_3/miniroot_sun4m
mt -f /dev/nrst0 rew
dd if=MUNIX of=/dev/nrst0 bs=8k conv=sync
dd if=miniroot of=/dev/nrst0 bs=100k conv=sync
You may also want to dump a copy of your "/" and "/usr" filesystems
to the end of tape as once booted you won't be able to run SunInstall
(for obvious reasons).
Press L1-A (i.e. STOP-A) to enter console mode and type:
ok> boot tape
Make the following selection when asked:
2 - exit to single user shell
Format and/or partition your disk if necessary.
Copy miniroot to disk:
(You have to do this step manually, as the automated procedure
will attempt to copy it from CDROM.)
# mt -f /dev/rst0 rew
# mt -f /dev/nrst0 fsf 1
# dd if=/dev/nrst0 of=/dev/rsd0b bs=100k conv=sync
Press L1-A (i.e. STOP-A) to enter console mode and type:
ok> boot disk:b -sw
Once miniroot is booted you can then restore your "/" and "/usr"
partitions from tape, etc. "
11. Not to look a gift horse in the mouth, but why does my AppleCD
300 work for booting and mounting?