[SunHELP] NVRAM setting for the ignorant

[Dale Ghent]

On Sat, 17 Feb 2001 NikHenville at cs.com wrote:

| NVRAM - editing boot settings. What are the PROM (Forth) commands for 
| permanently setting the disk type or alias on SparkyIPX type machines.
| The faq was brilliant re IP/serial etc - and that all worked fine once done, 
| but I cannot find anything about permanently setting the type and location of 
| the scsi disk used for booting - this means one extra step when booting - <>n 
| into "new" mode and <boot disk> to continue the process.
| If anyone can point me to on step-by-step editing for idiots I would be 
| grateful.

go to new command mode and run the following:

setenv boot-device disk

The PROM settings can be viewed with the 'printenv' command.

/dale