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Re: Specify boot device



On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 10:24:47PM +0100, Carsten Friede wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I've just bought a SUN Ultra1. Now I want to install Debian on it. I 
> also got therefore an external SCSI-CD-ROM. But on the installed 
> harddisk, there is an old version of SunOS, which always boots.
> So, my question is: Is there a way to pass an argument additionally to 
> "boot-device = disk" to specify the drive(SCSI-ID), from which to boot?

When the UltraSPARC logo comes up (when it first boots), hit STOP+A.
That should get you an "ok>" prompt. At this prompt, type "boot cdrom".

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