[ale] Sparc10

[Dave Brooks]

>From the ok prompt:

'setenv boot-device disk'

That would set your default boot device to your harddrive.  You can also
use 'setenv boot-device cdrom' to boot from your cdrom, etc. 
'disk' would refer to your harddrive, use 'nvalias' to show different device
aliases you can boot from, 'printenv' to show what the current setting are.

Also, try 'setenv tpe-link-test? false'.  That will make booting solaris a
little
quicker if its on there and your ethernet device doesnt have a medium
connected.  Unfortunately, the Linux sunlance.o driver overrides this setting
and will spew error messages to /dev/console if a configured device loses
link.

If for some reason none of this works, hold STOP-L on the keyboard to
factory default the OBP settings.

Best,
Dave

> I have a sparc10 I want to run Linux on.  I need to load Linux on the
> unit and the unit tries to boot from Ethernet.  How can I disable that?
> I keep getting the following error message:
> 
> 
> Timeout waiting for ARP/RARP packet
> 
> I can use arp to provide an address, but I need to boot from the hdd to
> see if Solaris is loaded.  Hoe do I tell the system to boot from the
> drive not Ethernet.  I'm not using video, I'm using serial console.
> 
> Chris


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