Hello!
I received many responses from people concerning my query and (I
thought) I had posted a summary. Then I start receiving more messages
telling me the answer (even a phone call - thanks!). I do not know how
it happened, but it seems that instead of a summary I re posted my
original question.... ARGHHHHHHHH!
Thanks to eveyone who responded! The solution to my problem was simple.
The Sparc 20 was trying to boot of the net. I do not know how to boot
prom variables got changes, but they did. Here are some solutions
to the problem:
Draconian:
Hold down the L1 and the 'n' key and pwoer the system up -
this will reset all NVRAM parameters to default.
Less Draconian:
On 'ok' boot prompt enter 'printenv' command and make sure
boot-device=disk
diag-switch?=false
If not - set them:
setenv boot-device disk
setenv diag-switch? false
and reboot. You can type:
boot disk
to explicitly boot of the disk instead of the net and you can type:
probe-scsi
to make sure the Sparc sees the disk. If it does not there *may*
be a hardware problem.
Crossing my fingers... hope this will go through.
- Henrik
-- Henrik Schmiediche, Dept. of Statistics, Texas A&M, College Station, TX 77843 E-mail: henrik@stat.tamu.edu | Tel: (409) 862-1764 | Fax: (409) 845-3144 Finger for pgp 2.6 key, fingerprint: E867 D9DB 9616 5DAC 0F67 FE98 77FE 8583
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