[SunHELP] problem booting up

[ChrisBotha at CTNDDN]

Init 0 should do.

-----Original Message-----
From: Kelvin Koh [mailto:kelvin at acks.org]
Sent: 31 January 2001 09:43
To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Subject: RE: [SunHELP] problem booting up


However, I'm unable to get to the "ok" prompt. I held down
STOP+d keys, break key, STOP+a keys - none of the combination worked.

Any advice?

Regards,
Kelvin Koh
www.acks.org

On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Chris Botha  @  CTN DDN wrote:

> Hi,
>
> At the "ok" prompt, type printenv.  Look at your boot-device entry.  Yours
> will most probably point to the net.  You need to change this sequence to
> use the disk first.
>
> It should look something like this:
>
> setenv boot-device disk
>
> Regards
> Chris
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kelvin Koh [mailto:kelvin at acks.org]
> Sent: 31 January 2001 08:53
> To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> Subject: [SunHELP] problem booting up
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Whenever I power on my Sun E420R box, it defaults to network booting. I've
> used the key combinations as mentioned in the 420R manual, but none
> referred me to the "ok" prompt.
>
> Is there any method which I can use to reset the PROM, so as to allow
> CDROM booting?
>
> TIA.
>
> Regards,
> Kelvin Koh
> www.acks.org
>
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