SUMMARY: IPC boot problem

From: Stefan Gerberding (stefan@inferenzsysteme.informatik.th-darmstadt.de)
Date: Mon Jan 15 1996 - 05:10:09 CST


Hello world,

Here is the original question:

> I have a problem with an old Sun IPC Workstation which always tries to boot
> from the net. Since we don't have any diskless clients this does not work, of
> course. Every time I try to reboot this machine I have to L1-A the
> boot-process (initiated by shutdown -r) und type `boot disk'. The latter
> works.
>
> To my knowledge the eeprom settings are okay. The problem occured for the
> first time after I've replaced the CPU-board (keeping the EEPROM). The value
> of the `boot-device' setting works when used as argument to `boot'.
>
> selftest-#megs=1
> version2?=true
> output-device=screen
> input-device=keyboard
> sbus-probe-list=0123
> keyboard-click?=false
> keymap=
> ttyb-rts-dtr-off=false
> ttyb-ignore-cd=true
> ttya-rts-dtr-off=false
> ttya-ignore-cd=true
> ttyb-mode=9600,8,n,1,-
> ttya-mode=9600,8,n,1,-
> fcode-debug?=false
> diag-file=
> diag-device=net
> boot-file=
> boot-device=/sbus/esp@0,800000/sd@0,...
> auto-boot?=true
> watchdog-reboot?=false
> local-mac-address?=false
> screen-#columns=80
> screen-#rows=34
> scsi-initiator-id=7
> use-nvramrc?=false
> nvramrc=
> sunmon-compat?=true
> security-mode=none
> security-password=
> security-#badlogins=0
> oem-logo=
> oem-logo?=false
> oem-banner=
> oem-banner?=false
> hardware-revision=
> last-hardware-update=
> testarea=0
> mfg-switch?=false
> diag-switch?=true
> name=options

I got lots of answers. Most of them suggested to set diag-switch? to false,
because otherwise the IPC tries to boot from diag-device which is set to net.
Others suggested to set the diag-device to disk. Both solutions did work!

Thanks for your help

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