Re: force to boot from cd

From: ragnus2003 (vincent.ragueneau_at_fnac.net)
Date: 08/03/03 

Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2003 09:54:10 +0100

....
When you boot with the Install CD or 1/2 CD and you don't use the -S option
you start the install ... The boot with the -S option is very quiecky...

Vince

"Dr. David Kirkby" <drkirkby@ntlworld.com> a écrit dans le message de
news:3F2C436E.C057B6BE@ntlworld.com...
> ragnus2003 wrote:
> >
> > From the obp promt
> > type boot cdrom -s
> > if boot don't work, verify your alias cdrom ( with the command devalias)
> >
> > Vince
> > "TingChong" <ma7777772@hotmail.com> a écrit dans le message de news:
> > 451a2a55.0308011351.4c48cacc@posting.google.com...
> > > Is there a way to force the sun E450 to boot from cd instead of hard
disk?
>
> Why does he need the -s switch? Unless he want to boot into single
> user mode on the CD, that switch will cause him problems.
>
>
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> Department of Medical Physics,
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