[SPARCbook] resume failure

[Mark G. Thomas]

Hi,

> I saw a message posted a few days ago about forcing the sparcbook to do a
> normal boot instead of a resume.  I also noticed some info about it in
> the FAQ
> 
> Trouble is it doesn't seem to be working for me.
> 
> The FAQ suggests, at the sparcbook banner
> 
> ok create no-resume
> ok boot disk
> 
> I have a 3gs with solaris 2.6 and the above doesn't seem to prevent it
> from attempting to do a resume
> 
> any other ideas?

It is critical that immediately before doing the "create no-restore?",
you must have typed "reset", and done a pause-a while the banner is 
being displayed, then type "create  no-restore?", being careful
to include the question mark.  The instructions don't work unless they 
are followed closely.  It took me a few tries to get it right.  That is
why I posted this below as FAQ followup.

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a: At the rom monitor prompt, do a reset command, then while the Sparcbook
   banner is displayed enter pause-a to interrupt the sequence. Then, 
   type "create  no-restore?" and enter. Then type "boot disk", and the 
   machine will boot normally instead of doing a resume.

   The trick here is to do a pause-a while the banner is displayed,
   otherwise the "create no-restore?" will have no effect.
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Mark G. Thomas (Mark at Misty.com -- http://www.misty.com/)