Re: bad magic number, or ignorance?
On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 05:32:00PM -0500, Chad Miller wrote:
>
> (Since my questions may not betray how little I know of Sun hardware,
> I'll tell you straight out: Less than you think.)
>
> I inherited a largish ultrasparc box, and replaced the motherboard to
> get around an unknown firmware password. I can power-on the box, and
> after the initial few minutes of diagnostics, at the OpenBoot (3.14)
> 'ok' prompt, tell it to 'boot floppy'.
>
> Incidentally, I 'dd' an image of
> potato/main/disks-sparc/current/sun4u/images-1.44/rescue.bin
> onto a floopie, and insert it into ``fdthree''.
Very few UltraSPARC's are able to boot from floppies. You'll want to
either use the tftp image, or wait till I can get a working CD image
available.
Ben
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