Re: Sun Ultra 5 not booting

Hi Dave,
The hard drive in the original and second sun was knackered, but i was happy
enough with the replacement as i ended up with 128mbs extra memory. And
happily this machine displays a nice VGA image and ok prompt :D
I tested a hard drive out of a pc and i received a magic number error,
assume ive just got to configure openboot to recognise it. Im a total newbie
with Sun hardware.
What i also tried to do was replace the CDrom drive as i think the one
installed is a bit flakey, was wishing to install FreeBSD but CDrom wont
boot from the disk. I tried a Creative drive just now but it doesnt show up
on probe-ide, so i imagine theres something i need to configure.
I have a downloaded Sun manual but it doesnt supply much information with
regards to changing to non standard Ultra 5 hardware.

Thanx.

"Dave (from the UK)" <see-my-signature@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote in message news:43cd6992@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Dazx wrote:
>> Hi,
>> Well good news for me, the ebay seller replaced the system but needs a
>> hard drive, how do i access the system settings to make changes required
>> ?
>
>
> What do you mean "but needs a hard drive"? Is he sending you a system
> without a drive and you have to move it? Not sure what you mean.
>
> What settings to you want to set? Many can be set in the open boot prom,
> which you can get to from the ok prompt
>
> ok setenv
> Usage: setenv option-name value
>
>
> ok setenv oem-banner? true
> oem-banner? = true
> ok setenv oem-banner? false
> oem-banner? = false
>
> not sure what you want now. Good to hear the seller seems honest.
>
>
> --
> Dave K
>
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>
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