[SUMMARY] Timeout waiting for ARP/RARP packet

Dear SUN Managers : 
 
 I really appreciate all the responses I got from so many great people on this list. Most of you got it right. The problem was that the "diag-device" was set to "net". When I changed it to "disk" (setenv diag-device = disk), the timeout problem got solved. Also, I set diag-switch? to "false" as pointed out by David Foster to be the right solution (to keep the system off the diagnostics mode).
 
I received more than 30 responses. Below are some of the people who answered first (I really do appreciate also others who are not mentioned below) : 
 
 
 Alex Shepard 
 Darren Dunham 
 Sean Berry 
 Graham Wood 
 Valery Glinski 
 Ray Brownrigg 
 David Foster 
 Amit Mahajan 
 John England 
 Tony Walsh 
 
 Thanks, 
 Mira 
 
 
 Original Post : 
 
 Dear Sun Managers, 
 
 I was installing Solaris 2.5.1 11/97 (after using the Operating Environment CD) on a 440 MHz U10 and after rebooting the workstation, the following message 
appears always : 
 
 timeout waiting for ARP/RARP packet 
 
 I could see that it was trying to boot the U10 off the net , so I tried to force it to boot from disk with the OBP commands : 
 
 setenv boot-device disk 
 boot disk 
 
 but still got the same result after rebooting. 
 
 Please advise as to what could be the problem. 
 
 Thanks, 
 Mira. 

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