On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Andreas Jaehnigen wrote: > Hi there, > > if I reboot my Sun SLC here with > reboot -f > it starts rebooting. Then the PROM prompt is displayed in an endless loop: > > type b (boot), c (continue) or n (new command mode) > type b (boot), c (continue) or n (new command mode) > type b (boot), c (continue) or n (new command mode) > type b (boot), c (continue) or n (new command mode) > ... > > The machine is booted via TFTP and gets all its partitions over NFS. > > Any clues..??
Had the same problem with my diskless SLC. Easy fix. At the 'ok' prompt type: setenv sunmon-compat? false Apparently the problem is an interaction between the compatibility mode (old) and linux. If you have it in 'new command mode' all the time, you won't have this problem. --Kurt
