[OpenBIOS] Solaris 9: failed boot with strange device names

[Tarl Neustaedter]

> Hi all,
>
> So given that the Fcode evaluator is sorted for Solaris 10, I thought 
> I'd try my original Solaris 9 disk image again and was surprised to 
> find that it didn't boot.
>
> Further investigation seems to show that strangely encoded device 
> names are being passed into cif-open which is failing:
> [...]
> 3 > 2dup type cdrom:a,|platform|OpenBiosTeam,OpenBIOS|ufsboot ok
> [...]
> 3 > 2dup type cdrom:a,|platform|sun4u|ufsboot ok
> [...]
> It looks as if a special type of device-specifier is being passed into 
> cif-open consisting of a device and argument, a comma, then the actual 
> filename required with /s replaced by |s.
>
> Is this some kind of special syntax that needs to be taught to the dev 
> word and/or cif-open words?

Ah, yes. The issue here is that the full pathname is something like:

/pci at 400/scsi at 3/disk at 0:a|platform|sun4u|ufsboot

An argument (the stuff after ":") cannot contain a slash (or it would 
become a path element), so ufs filenames have the slashes replaced with 
vertical bars. But this should have been entirely between the secondary 
booter and Solaris - I'm not sure why you are tripping over it.