[Sunhelp] Help booting 64bit kernel on an Ultra

[Bill Bradford]

Fresh install of 2.7 5/99:

(machine's hostname is l1-a.sunhelp.org btw)
Sep  5 04:21:22 CDT 1999
Sep  5 00:39:06 L1-A unix: syncing file systems...
Sep  5 00:39:06 L1-A unix:  done
Sep  5 02:33:12 L1-A unix: SunOS Release 5.7 Version Generic_106541-04 [UNIX(R) 
System V Release 4.0]
Sep  5 02:33:12 L1-A unix: Copyright (c) 1983-1999, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Sep  5 02:33:12 L1-A unix: 
Sep  5 02:33:12 L1-A NOTICE: 64 bit OS installed, but the 32-bit OS is the defau
lt
Sep  5 02:33:12 L1-A    for the processor(s) on this system.
Sep  5 02:33:12 L1-A    See boot(1M) for more information.
Sep  5 02:33:12 L1-A 
Sep  5 02:33:12 L1-A Booting the 32-bit OS ...
Sep  5 02:33:12 L1-A 
Sep  5 02:33:12 L1-A last message repeated 1 time

According to the boot() mapage, I have to set the boot-file OBP environment
variable to a specific file in order to boot 64-bit.  Any suggstions as
sto what that might be?

Bill

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