[SunHELP] problem booting up

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As root type:
eeprom diag-switch? false
Anything you can do at the ok prompt with 'printenv  command' can be done with
'eeprom command' as root.

Mark




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Subject:  RE: [SunHELP] problem booting up



How do I go about setting this variable? There's no way I can boot to disk
and CDROM. Not able to reach the "ok" prompt either.

Regards,
Kelvin Koh
www.acks.org

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

> The other problem that you might have is that your diag-switch? NVRAM
> parameter is set to true, to turn this to false, use:
>
> setenv diag-switch? false
>
> 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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