[SunHELP] Sparcstation 5

[Mac User]

THanx for all the replies.
It indeed was trying to boot off the network . It
dosent have a bootable image on its local drive.

Thanx
Mac
--- Joshua Fielden <jf at fielden.org> wrote:
> 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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