force to boot from cd

[TingChong]

Is there a way to force the sun E450 to boot from cd instead of hard disk?

[Grog]

In article <451a2a55.0308011351.4c48cacc@posting.google.com >, ma7777772
@hotmail.com says...

> Is there a way to force the sun E450 to boot from cd instead of hard disk?

Use "boot cdrom" at the ok prompt. Or is that not working?

If "boot cdrom" doesn't work, then you can still do it, but it's a
little more complicated.

And you can change the boot-device setting to make the machine ALWAYS
boot from CD... But I can't think of why anybody would want to do that.

[ragnus2003]

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:
[email]451a2a55.0308011351.4c48cacc@posting.google.com[/email]...

> Is there a way to force the sun E450 to boot from cd instead of hard disk?

[ragnus2003]

.....
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:
> > [email]451a2a55.0308011351.4c48cacc@posting.google.com[/email]...

> > > 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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[Tom Hamilton]

On Sun, 03 Aug 2003 00:04:14 +0100, Dr. David Kirkby wrote:

> 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:
>> [email]451a2a55.0308011351.4c48cacc@posting.google.com[/email]...

>> > 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.

So he doesn't start the install program.

[Andrew Kam]

Good morning all!

Post your technical queries to [email]ap-csc-english@sun.com[/email] if you are based in
the Asia Pacific region (including Australia and New Zealand). This is the
Technical Support area. They should be able to point you in the right
direction.

However, unless you have a Cobalt machine - all other hardware and software
support requires you to have a valid maintenance contract number with Sun.
If you don't have one, be prepared to pay for time and materials costs.

Best regards
Andrew

"TingChong" <ma7777772@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:451a2a55.0308011351.4c48cacc@posting.google.c om...

> Is there a way to force the sun E450 to boot from cd instead of hard disk?

[John Howells]

Andrew Kam wrote:

>
> Good morning all!

which was a lot of troll nonsense.

Goodbye. Plonk!

[Chris Greenman]

TingChong wrote:

> Is there a way to force the sun E450 to boot from cd instead of hard disk?

Do you want it to ALWAYS boot from CD or just one time? If it's just one
time, then just type "boot cdrom" at the ok prompt. This will boot the cd
and start the install. A "boot cdrom -s" will drop you into a single user
mode console.

If you want it to ALWAYS boot from CD then drop to an ok prompt "init 0" or
"stop + a" and type "setenv boot-device cdrom".

Hope this helps,
Chris