(I'm pointing you to debian-sparc here..) On my IPX, there are some options in the PROM environment that have to do with the boot process. Key in `printenv' at the PROM console prompt (ok) and go from there. I'm afraid I can't step through my machine right now.
Hope this helps. On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Fraser Campbell wrote: > I have a sun4m machine and Debian installed great on it with one > exception. It will not boot correctly (or at least the way I'd like it). > > The first hard drive has partition 3 labelled as type "Whole Disk". The > hard drive is then partitioned with 500 MB for / and 500 MB for /tmp. > > When I reboot the computer waits at what seems to be a Sun boot prompt. I > need to manually type in "boot disk1:1" to tell the machine to boot from > the first partition of the first disk. After doing that I proceed to the > SILO prompt where the Linux boot procedure that I am familiar with > commences. > > I really need this machine to be remotely rebootable ... can it be done? > > Thanks, > > Fraser