[rescue] newbie question

[Mike Meredith]

On Sunday 13 October 2002 11:27 pm, Sheldon T. Hall wrote:
> "Alys" <alys at skyviewmail.com> wrote
> > >> "Boot device: /sbus/le at 0,c00000    File and args:
> > >> Internal loopback test -- Did not recieve expected loopback
> > >> packet. Can't open boot device
>
> It looks like it's trying to boot from the network.  The machine
> might be set up to keep only its data locally, and get its programs,
> or some of them, over the network.  If that's so, it's not going to
> boot from its own hard disk.

It might have diagnostics turned on, in which case some systems try and 
boot from the net. To turn it off :-

	setenv diag-switch? false