Sun Sparc 5 woes

[Janicki at ia-inc.com (Chris Janicki)]

Hold the "Stop" button and press 'A' on your Sun keyboard.  This 
non-intuitive trick should drop you into the "console" prompt so your 
can 'boot cdrom'.

Ryan L. Kitchen wrote:

> After wrestling with solaris 8 and all sorts of profile issues, I 
> discovered that remotely building a machine from scratch through ssh, 
> is a real bad idea, especially for a hack like me.  I goofed a lot of 
> things up, did a lot of headscratching, and actually learned a lot, 
> despite banging my head against a wall far too frequently.
>
> I decided to turn over a new leaf, break out the dusty SUN keyboard, 
> use a monitor, and re-install and set things up locally, so it would 
> work. Enter my stupidity: I accidentally used the wrong keyboard on my 
> desk(the sun one instead of my pc keyboard), and prematurely ended the 
> installation, as the  THIRD and final cd was  JUST about to 
> finish...(grrr). So now when the machine boots, I receive this error:
>
> <snip>
> Short read. 0x2000 chars read
> disk read error
> boot: cannot find misc/krtld
> boot: error loading interpreter (misc/krtld)
> Elf32 read error.
> boot failed
> Enter filename [/platform/SUNW,SPARCstation-5/kernel/unix]:
> </snip>
>
> Now normally, if I just unplug the keyboard when the machine is 
> starting up I get a console prompt and i can just type in "boot cdrom" 
> and away installation goes...however, this message will not let me do 
> that. I don't know how to re-install from this point. i'm just stuck, 
> and its killing me not having mail-server/ftp/webserver running. I 
> loathe IIS, and although I could turn it on, I would really rather 
> have my trusty sparc up and running.
> Any ideas? Thanks.
>
>
> Ryan Kitchen
>
>
>
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