Re: Killed my SPARC5?
On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Donald Knecht wrote:
> this may or may not be related..........but ever since i installed a new
> boot prom on my
> ss20, if i manually turn the power off to the box then re-apply power it
> sits there for
> about five minutes with just the power supply fan and the hard drive fan
> running, the power LED is on..........then the monitor, (GDM17E10) will
> switch on and the OPB screen will come up, another weird thing about
> this prom is setenv seems to not work, it will not remember my settings,
> if i change boot-device to disk it still comes up trying net as
> default....is this a bad prom or is the nvram going? what is the
> program kris speaks of that lets you change prom settings from linux?
Try entering 'setenv diag-switch? false'. You replaced your boot PROM
so it reset to diagnostic mode. The default in diagnostic mode is to
try booting from the net, despite what boot-device says.
--Kurt
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