[Aurora-sparc-user] Aurora mirrors and Ultra 10 install problem/solution

[Bill Randle]

Penna,

Thanks so much for your recent posting to the user's list. As a newcomer
to Aurora, I also downloaded the iso images in the 2.99 directory
thinking they were the latest. The I saw you email in the archives and
downloaded the newer Corona isos. It would be *really* good if something
was said about this in the News section of the website to avoid other
users having the same problem.

On another note - for anyone - now that I have Aurora installed, how do
I get it to boot? This is a Sparc Ultra 10 with two IDE drives. The
Aurora install is on sdb8 (/dev/dsk/c0t1d0s7). I tried
"boot disk1:g" from the ok Open Boot prompt, but it comes back and says:

  Bad magic number in disk label
  Can't open disk label package
  Evaluating: boot disk1:g

  Can't open boot device

I also tried booting the install CD and hitting F5 for Rescue. It just
took me back to the ok prompt after a bit. I was hoping to at least be
able do something like boot "linux ide=nodma root=/dev/sdb8" at some
point in time as a fallback.

	-Bill