[H-GEN] sparc station 5 won't boot

[Igor Kromin]

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Its set as boot-device = disk
so thats not a problem, its just not finding the boot sector i think, but
the disk is working and netbsd has just been installed. Its very weird
behaviour.



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Peter Arnold
Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 4:37 PM
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Subject: Re: [H-GEN] sparc station 5 won't boot


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I'd guess that it's been set to boot from net in the eeprom. I can't
recall the exact syntax so you may need to do a bit of searching/trying
but it goes something like this:
at the OK prompt type:
printenv (or is that print-env?)
it should list all your eeprom settings. There is one "boot-device" that
I 'spect is set to "net". Change this to "disk" or "disk0" or "disk0:a"
or somthing like this. caveat: this is assuming you are booting from
disk "0", on my ultra and LX it's set to "disk0:a net" and "disk0:a
disk" respectively.

to set the variable I think it is:
OK setenv disk0:a
or
OK detenv "disk0:a net"

HTH

Peter Arnold

Igor Kromin wrote:

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> Hi,
>
> I'm just experiencing some problems with my SpacStation 5. It was booting
> properly previously, but I accidentally removed some files I shouln't
have,
> so it was rendered unusable, then I decided to reinstall NetBSD on it, I
> netbooted it just fine and installed NetBSD on it, but now, it does not
want
> to boot from the hard drive any more. Does anyone have a suggestion as to
> why this is happening?
>
> P.S. I tried installing OpenBSD on it too, but that will not boot from the
> hard drive either.
>
> Thanks
>
>
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