[SPARCbook] resume failure

[Tyson J. Lambert]

If I understand the FAQ correctly, I should do a reset and then as the
machine is booting back up, when I see the giant sparcbook banner, I
should press pause-a.  This causes a prompt to appear immediately after
the banner is gone.  Here I type "create no-resume?"  (complete with
question mark) and then boot disk following that.

I've tried several variants of boot disk and also pause-a at several
different times during the banner display

on a side note, I just tried this procedure on my 3gx and it worked fine.
I can't seem to make it work on the 3gs (it belongs to a friend).  Any
ideas what I'm doing wrong on the 3gs?

thanks

-Ty


On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, Mark G. Thomas wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> > I saw a message posted a few days ago about forcing the sparcbook to do a
> > normal boot instead of a resume.  I also noticed some info about it in
> > the FAQ
> > 
> > Trouble is it doesn't seem to be working for me.
> > 
> > The FAQ suggests, at the sparcbook banner
> > 
> > ok create no-resume
> > ok boot disk
> > 
> > I have a 3gs with solaris 2.6 and the above doesn't seem to prevent it
> > from attempting to do a resume
> > 
> > any other ideas?
> 
> It is critical that immediately before doing the "create no-restore?",
> you must have typed "reset", and done a pause-a while the banner is 
> being displayed, then type "create  no-restore?", being careful
> to include the question mark.  The instructions don't work unless they 
> are followed closely.  It took me a few tries to get it right.  That is
> why I posted this below as FAQ followup.
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> a: At the rom monitor prompt, do a reset command, then while the Sparcbook
>    banner is displayed enter pause-a to interrupt the sequence. Then, 
>    type "create  no-restore?" and enter. Then type "boot disk", and the 
>    machine will boot normally instead of doing a resume.
> 
>    The trick here is to do a pause-a while the banner is displayed,
>    otherwise the "create no-restore?" will have no effect.
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 
> -- 
> Mark G. Thomas (Mark at Misty.com -- http://www.misty.com/)
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