[SunHELP] Sparcstation 5

[Chris Pinnock]

On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 04:43:07PM -0700, Mac User wrote:
> Have just dug up a sparcstation 5 from the store room
> . Everything is working fine except when it starts
> booting it gives this message 
> "Timeout waiting for ARP/RARP Packet."
> How shld i get around this .. 
> I have no CDROm drive on the machine .
> Boot PROM is a 2.xx ..

The machine is trying to boot over the network. Has the machine got a
hard disc? If so, hold down "STOP" and A together until you get to 
the "ok" prompt. Try "boot disk" to boot from the hard disk.

Alternatively, if you are getting lots of messages on the screen, then 
you are in diagnostic mode and that will force the machine to boot 
over the net. You can turn this off with "setenv diag-switch? false"

best wishes,
Chris