[rescue] newbie question

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Sun Oct 13 17:44:28 CDT 2002


   Oh crap, I'm sorry...I meant "setenv".  I was working on an Alpha at 
the time, and SRM's environment variable system uses "set"...that's my 
excuse. :-)

      -Dave

On Sunday, October 13, 2002, at 06:08 PM, Alys wrote:
> Whenever I use "set" for anything I get  "Stack Underflow"... Any 
> suggestions?
>
> Dave McGuire wrote:
>
>> On Sunday, October 13, 2002, at 05:13 PM, Alys wrote:
>>
>>> So I have an old "Super Workstation II+/50" and when I boot it up, I 
>>> get:
>>>
>>> "Boot device: /sbus/le at 0,c00000    File and args:
>>> Internal loopback test -- Did not recieve expected loopback packet.
>>> Can't open boot device
>>>
>>> Type b (boot), c (continue), or n (new command mode)"
>>>
>>> I do not currently have it connected to a network. I was wondering 
>>> how I would get it to boot from here. Any help would be appreciated.
>>
>>
>>   I believe there's a way to disable the ethernet loopback test in 
>> OpenBoot...I think it's "set tpe-loopback? false" at the "ok" prompt 
>> from OpenBoot but I don't recall offhand.  Anyone else remember this? 
>>  It's been a while.
>>
>>   You can get to that "ok" prompt by typing "n" (for "new command 
>> mode") at the ">" prompt you're currently sitting at.
>>
>>        -Dave
>>
>> -- 
>> Dave McGuire          "PC users only know two 'solutions'...
>> St. Petersburg, FL       reboot and upgrade."    -Jonathan Patschke
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Dave McGuire          "PC users only know two 'solutions'...
St. Petersburg, FL       reboot and upgrade."    -Jonathan Patschke



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