[SPARCbook] boot from SCI external CD

Len Rose len at netsys.com
Thu Jan 16 02:05:29 CST 2003


Yes, it's fairly easy to do so, you can change the aliass within
the openboot firmware..I haven't tried this but you should just
be able to do this:

ok setenv boot-device cdrom

You might have to set the partition as in cdrom:a, maybe not.


On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 10:43:38AM -0500, Rikki169 at aol.com wrote:
> Hello,
> This has probably been covered before, but I will ask anyway.
> Can the 3gx be setup to boot only from an external SCSI CDROM?
> Is it possible?


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