On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, you wrote:
> Does anybody know how to get a SUN SPARC ELC to boot off an eternal
> hardrive? When I power up the ELC with the SCSI external harddrive I get
> the following message:
>
> Sbus slot 0 le esp dma
> Sbus slot 1
> Sbus slot 2
> Sbus slot 3 bwtwo
>
> Boot device: /sbus/le@0,c00000 File and args:
> Timeout waiting for ARP/RARP packet
> Timeout waiting for ARP/RARP packet
> Timeout waiting for ARP/RARP packet
>
> I am to understand that /sbus/le@0,c00000 is the ethernet card, and that it
> is trying to boot off the
> network, not the hard drive. ARP (Address resolution Protocol) and RARP
> (Reverse ARP), are needed for net booting, according to reliable sources.
Ahh, you're the one that beat me on the bid for those. :) I got two of the
other ELCs, and I've been having lots of fun with them. You missed the xpilot
setup we had going on them at the closing social.
Anyway, what you'll need to do is hit L1-A (I think that's it... if it doesn't
work, try L2-A) which will bring up the boot prom menu. There you can read
through the help it's got, probably in 'help boot', which should tell you how
to change the boot device to the SCSI port. Good luck!
--
--Levi
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