[SunRescue] Booting SS1 from floppy????

[Paul Theodoropoulos]

from your boot prom prompt, type

devalias

this will list the devices available, and their nicknames. just type 'boot 
<nickname>' and it should work.


At 03:25 PM 04/21/2000, you wrote:
> > >Offhand, I have forgotten how to boot an SS1 from floppy.
> > >
> > >Anyone remember the correct prom incantation to get a SparcStation1
> > >to boot from floppy?
> > >
> > Isn't it boot fd()
> >
> > or boot floppy?
> >
> > Try doing help boot at the okay prompt, it should tell you most of what it
> > supports.
>
>boot fd()      did not work
>boot floppy    did not work
>boot fd(,,1)   did not work
>boot /fd       did not work
>boot fd        did not work
>boot fd(0,0,0) did not work
>
>Methinks someone may have to look this one up in the manuals.
>
>Help boot gave everything but floppy info.
>
>I did get OpenBSD to boot from the floppy one time, but fer the
>dickens of it I can't recall what I incanted into the night on
>the full moon over a stewpot to get the silly thing booting.
>
>Where did I put my bat's wings and eyes o' newt.....(:+\\.....
>
>Bob
>
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