Subject: Re: booting issues
To: Michael M Delaney <mmdst23+@pitt.edu>
From: None <mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu>
List: port-sparc
Date: 10/11/2000 23:01:31
> I can't seem to get it to boot from cd.   "boot cdrom" gives the
> following:
> "bad magic number in disk label"  
> "can't open disk label package"
> 
> 
> "can't open boot device"
> 
> Do I need to pass any arguments to tell it where on the cd to boot from?


> Or did I just download an ISO I can't boot from from?
where did you get the ISO?  its possible its not a sparc bootable one.

if you have a CD writer, you might consider making your own bootcd.
http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/bootcd.html shows how.

-Dan