Fraser, In the help screen, there is a command for resetting the boot prom. Its something like, setenv defaults or something. Do a help boot, to find it I think.
Also, your hard disk should be set to scsi id 3. If you have a cdrom, you need to set it scsi id 6. John > -----Original Message----- > From: Beiad Ian Q. Dalton > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf > Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, January 17, 2000 4:10 PM > To: Fraser Campbell > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Partitioning SparcStation > > > > (I'm pointing you to debian-sparc here..) > > On my IPX, there are some options in the PROM environment > that have to do > with the boot process. Key in `printenv' at the PROM console > prompt (ok) > and go from there. I'm afraid I can't step through my machine > right now. > > Hope this helps. > > On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Fraser Campbell wrote: > > > I have a sun4m machine and Debian installed great on it with one > > exception. It will not boot correctly (or at least the way > I'd like it). > > > > The first hard drive has partition 3 labelled as type > "Whole Disk". The > > hard drive is then partitioned with 500 MB for / and 500 MB > for /tmp. > > > > When I reboot the computer waits at what seems to be a Sun > boot prompt. I > > need to manually type in "boot disk1:1" to tell the machine > to boot from > > the first partition of the first disk. After doing that I > proceed to the > > SILO prompt where the Linux boot procedure that I am familiar with > > commences. > > > > I really need this machine to be remotely rebootable ... > can it be done? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Fraser > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
