[SunHELP] Sparcstation 5

[Joshua Fielden]

Diag mode doesn't ness. force network booting. 

setenv boot-device disk0 disk1
setenv diag-device disk0 disk1 

Will set the machine to boot from the first disk, then second disk, in that order, for example. It will also boot it from the disk when in diag mode.

jf

Chris Pinnock quoth, on Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 11:36:08AM +0100:
> From: Chris Pinnock <cjep at fawlty.net>
> To: Mac User <user_mac at yahoo.com>
> Cc: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> Subject: Re: [SunHELP] Sparcstation 5
> User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i
> Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2002 11:36:08 +0100
> 
> 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
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