Sun Blade 150

Hi,
I'm having a Sun Blade 150 Workstation (quite old one). I'm having IDE CDROM & one USB CDROM. I'm having Solaris 5.8 installed on it. Now I want to upgrade it to Solaris 5.9 9/05.
First I tried to install it from the IDE CDROM by giving the command "boot cdrom" from OK prompt. It gave me error Can't find boot device.
Then I tried to boot from my USB CDROM again I get the same error.
I also tried combinations such as boot cdrom1/2 etc.
My USB CDROM works perfectly in Solaris 8, when I insert the cd it mounts properly.
What could be the problem while booting from USB CDROM?
I do not have any SCSI card/port to install a SCSI CDROM.
Any help would be great for me.
Thanks,
Pranay C. Tembhekar

Hello,
<i>However I wonder that USB CDROM support is not there.</i>
To use a device without a loaded operating system, the OBP (aka "BIOS", firmware) of your system <u>must</u> know how to handle this device. Either the device is directly supported by the OBP (OBP includes the firmware) or the firmware is integrated on the add-in board (e.g. Sun framebuffers, SCSI hba) in a ROM.
Attaching a USB keyboard/mouse to a non-USB system (with Mini-DIN connector) to an add-in USB adapter is possible, while the USB keyboard isn't functional at the OBP level, it works after loading the USB driver at the operating system level.
According to the Release Notes Solaris 10 1/06 supports multiple keyboards/mice.
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