[SunHELP] problem booting up

[steve price]

if you can't get to the ok prompt at boot by doing a
stop-a - do you have root priviledges on the box?  if
so you can use the eeprom command.

man eeprom for info...

--- Kelvin Koh <kelvin at acks.org> wrote:
> 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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