Bad magic number in disk label

[Alan M. Feldstein]

To upgrade a Sun Blade 150 workstation from Solaris 9 to 10, I bought
the DVD-ROM from Sun. The Sun Blade 150 comes with a DVD-ROM drive. The
Solaris 10 installation instructions tell me:

Start the Solaris installation program.

*

To boot from the local DVD or CD and start the Solaris
installation GUI, type the following command.

ok boot cdrom

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ok boot cdrom
Boot device: /***@1f,0/***@d/***@1,0:f File and args:
Bad magic number in disk label
Can't open disk label package

Can't open boot device

ok
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Certainly Sun wouldn't sell me a DVD-ROM that is incompatible with their
own DVD-ROM drive!

Alan Feldstein
Cosmic Horizon
http://www.alanfeldstein.com/

[Alan M. Feldstein]

Never mind. I just noticed that 2 DVD-ROMs were shipped, one for SPARC
and one for x86. The observed behavior is a symptom of using the x86
DVD-ROM in a SPARC computer.

Alan Feldstein
Cosmic Horizon
http://www.alanfeldstein.com/

Post by Alan M. Feldstein
To upgrade a Sun Blade 150 workstation from Solaris 9 to 10, I bought
the DVD-ROM from Sun. The Sun Blade 150 comes with a DVD-ROM drive. The
Start the Solaris installation program.
*
To boot from the local DVD or CD and start the Solaris
installation GUI, type the following command.
ok boot cdrom
-------
ok boot cdrom
Bad magic number in disk label
Can't open disk label package
Can't open boot device
ok
-------
Certainly Sun wouldn't sell me a DVD-ROM that is incompatible with their
own DVD-ROM drive!
Alan Feldstein
Cosmic Horizon
http://www.alanfeldstein.com/