SunFire 280R boot problem

From: Andreas Hoeschler (ahoesch@smartsoft.de)
Date: Mon Jul 07 2003 - 05:42:15 EDT


Dear managers,

thanks a lot for your suggestions so far. In the meanwhile I found out
that the diag-switch? is set to true. According to the docu this causes
the system to boot from the diag device although the power on switch is
set for normal boot. The problem now is, how do I get to the ok prompt
to fix this (auto-boot? is currently true and boot hangs since no
install serve ris found)? I have no Stop-A key (PC console) and the #.
-> LOM -> break procedure known from Netra X1 machines does not work
for a SunFire (no LOM).

Regards,

    Andreas

> I have a SunFire 280R with the following open boot prom
> settings:
>
> auto-boot? true true
> boot-command boot boot
> diag-file
> diag-device net net
> boot-file
> boot-device disk net disk net
>
> The switch is set to I, so I would assume it facilitates the
> boot-device setting and boots from disk(0). However, it tries
> to boot
> from net which fails with Timeout waiting for ARP/RARP
> packet" since we
> have no boot server setup. The boot process is hanging since
> auto-boot?
> is set to true. So I can't manually boot with "boot disk0"
> which most
> likely would work. What can be done here? How can I get to
> the ok
> prompt to set auto-boot? to false and how can I get the
> system to boot
> from the device that is set with boot-device instead of
> diag-device?
>
> Thanks a lot,
>
> Andreas
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