Hi,
brownse6 wrote:
> I'm having problem booting a sun blade 150 OBP v4.6. I can mount the
> Western digital (WD) USB disk drive and format it with a new file
> system, that all works find. Its when I try to use this same disk for
> booting the OS that i encounter problems.
> Here is what I've done so far: Added a version 2.0 belkin pci USB card,
> connected the WD drive, booted single user with the current Sol 10 OS,
> mounted and newfs the disk, then installed a Sol 10 OS onto the WD
> drive. To boot from the usb disk I tried " boot
> /pci@1f,0/pci@5/usb@1,2/disk@0,0:a" which appears to be correct per
> Openboot command "dev".
> The error is " can't locate boot device "
> At this point i think that i need to update the OBP to v4.7 but I can't
> seem to located it on the web. Does any one know if I'm on the right
> track or where I might find the OBP 4.7 download?
>
>
Openboot can not boot from USB, but when you have Solaris running
drivers in Solaris can mount the drive!
/michael
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