Solaris woes: SUMMARY

> Hi everyone,
>
> Quite a lot of people responded to this post and I thank every one of
> you. - I would be lost without this group.  I realize that I was not 
> very good at
> describing exactly what the error messages were, and some of you 
> pointed
> out, and rightly so, that I need to supply more detail.  The problem 
> was that,
> the system would get as far as printing out "All rights reserved", 
> then the propellor
> would hand for about five minutes, then it would give two warning 
> statements with
> the statement "reset", then a barrage of numbers would flood the 
> screen, the
> screen would go blank and the cycle would start over again.  I wasn't 
> able to
> really understand what the messages were, they flashed by too quickly 
> and I
> didn't know how to capture that since I couldn't get the machine up.
>
> As it turns out, Aaron Lineberger suggested that a bad CD-ROM might be
> causing the problem, and he was right.  As soon as I disconnected it, 
> the system
> booted up normally.
>
> I appreciate everyone's input and thanks again.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Helen
>
>
> On Mar 2, 2007, at 5:58 PM, Helen Petropoulos wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a SunBlade 150 running Solaris 5.8 and I can't get it to boot 
>> up.
>> It starts to boot up, hangs for a while, prints a warning with a
>> timeout and a reset, dumps a lot of garbage to
>> the screen, and then the cycle starts all over again.
>> I can't get it to recognize the CDROM so I can't boot from CD.  I've
>> tried
>> reset-all and set-defaults at the OK prompt.  Any advice would be
>> appreciated.
>>
>> thanks in advance,
>>
>> Helen
>> elenip@u.washington.edu
>> University of Washington
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