Re: Specify boot device

[Carsten Friede <cfriede@wh12.tu-dresden.de>]

Ben Collins wrote:
> 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".
Thanks.


Carsten.
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