Re: Anyone know SunFire hardware
On Monday 02 March 2009 01:57:21 pm Paul Schmehl wrote: We have FreeBSD installed on a SunFire box running two AMD Opteron processors. I was upgrading to 7.1 STABLE on Friday, and after installing the kernel I rebooted. Now the box is completely unusable. Does anyone know how to get a SunFire box to boot from the CD ROM? Any changes I make to the BIOS seem to be completely ignored. When I get to the FreeBSD boot loader, I lose keyboard, so I can't even go to single user mode. Not being able to boot off the CD is a royal pita. I've done some Googling, and the most common answer seems to be hit STOP+A, but there is no STOP key on an Intel keyboard. Is there a magic incantation that will work? Maybe the entrails of a young goat? I've been working on an X2100 recently. Unfortunately it is running Linux but I was able to boot from both a FreeBSD CD (in an external USB CD drive) and a USB stick without issue. Keyboard was USB as well. F2 should take you to the BIOS setup screen, make sure you save your changes before exiting.. pretty standard AWARD-type BIOS. There's one screen where you can set the boot order between cdrom, hard drive, etc. and another submenu where you can set the hard drive boot priority. HTH, JN ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Anyone know SunFire hardware
On Monday 02 March 2009 5:06 pm, new_guy wrote: Paul Schmehl-2 wrote: I've done some Googling, and the most common answer seems to be hit STOP+A, but there is no STOP key on an Intel keyboard. Is there a magic incantation that will work? Maybe the entrails of a young goat? Ctrl + Break I'm sticking with OpenBSD... BTW. -- Hopefully that works for you, and in the process spares that poor young goat. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Anyone know SunFire hardware
We have FreeBSD installed on a SunFire box running two AMD Opteron processors. I was upgrading to 7.1 STABLE on Friday, and after installing the kernel I rebooted. Now the box is completely unusable. Does anyone know how to get a SunFire box to boot from the CD ROM? Any changes I make to the BIOS seem to be completely ignored. When I get to the FreeBSD boot loader, I lose keyboard, so I can't even go to single user mode. Not being able to boot off the CD is a royal pita. I've done some Googling, and the most common answer seems to be hit STOP+A, but there is no STOP key on an Intel keyboard. Is there a magic incantation that will work? Maybe the entrails of a young goat? -- Paul Schmehl, Senior Infosec Analyst As if it wasn't already obvious, my opinions are my own and not those of my employer. *** Check the headers before clicking on Reply. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Anyone know SunFire hardware
Paul Schmehl-2 wrote: I've done some Googling, and the most common answer seems to be hit STOP+A, but there is no STOP key on an Intel keyboard. Is there a magic incantation that will work? Maybe the entrails of a young goat? Ctrl + Break I'm sticking with OpenBSD... BTW. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Anyone-know-SunFire-hardware-tp22294904p22297874.html Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
