Question for the Solaris/SPARC gurus.
Lars Kellogg-Stedman
lars at larsshack.org
Sun Jan 13 09:29:51 EST 2002
> Now the box is repeating "Timeout waiting for ARP/RARP packet."
> Boot Device /iommu/sbus/ledma at f,400010/le at f,c0000 File and args:
Tim,
Your box is trying to boot off the network. Is this what you intended?
If not, you'll need to change the boot device setting.
From the "ok>" prompt, you can type:
printenv boot-device
To see the current setting. You probably want to set it to "disk" to
make it boot from the disk:
setenv boot-device disk
You'll also want to make sure that the diag-switch? setting is set to
*false* (or, if you have a real hardware diagnostic switch, make sure
it's off):
printenv diag-switch?
If not, set it to false:
setenv diag-switch? false
When in diagnostic mode, your Sparc will use diag-device rather than
boot-device for booting. Incidentally, typing 'printenv' by itself will
display all the openboot settings.
If this doesn't help, we'll try something else :).
Some information you might find helpful:
- Questions and Answers on OpenBoot:
http://www.itworld.com/AppDev/616/UIR951001openboot/
-- Lars
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