[ale] Sparc10

[Jerry Z. Yu]

it was from old memory,

I think it is from the EEPROM thing (aka, the sparc counterpart of
BIOS/firmware. it is interactive through a command-line interface. at
boot, send a 'break' signal will get you the prompt.). make sure the
boot-device variable didnot contain 'net' or at least some disk device
come first.

ok printenv boot-device
ok setenv boot-device disk


On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Chris Fowler wrote:

#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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