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Article #839Re: HELP I CANT BOOT
From: Lauren Child
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 00:00
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 00:00
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PO (biology@dreamscape.com) wrote: : Please forward a copy of your reply to biology@dreamscape.com : Im running SunOS 4.1.3 on an Weitek-upgraded sparc IPC : I cant boot! My machine is no longer attached to a network. This network : no longer exists. I keep getting this error where the machine says : "le0:..." and says it cant find a certain network address!!! : Is there some kind of key command that will allow me to get out of this? : It wont boot past this. It gets through everything else, it seems to stop : right before I would see the login screen. : Please forward a copy of your reply to biology@dreamscape.com Theres not a lot to go on there but it sounds like your machine is bootinng into diagnostic mode. on bootup - hold down stop (or L1) and press A. then type n to get into new command mode, and type'' setennv diag-switch? false then reboot when it comes back up press stop(L1) and a again, and type n printenv if diag-switch? is set to true again the your nvram chip has expired and you need to get a new one - take a look at the NVRAM faq which is referenced on www.sunhelp.org Hope that helps TTFN Lauren -- | Lauren Child http://www.f9.net.uk/ | Network Administrator http://www.force9.net | lchild@plus.net.uk http://www.plus.net.uk/ | PlusNet Technologies Ltd +------------ F9 and Force9 are PlusNet services ------------ Disclaimer The contents of this message are confidential, and are intended solely for the person or person's addressed. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of PlusNet Technologies Ltd. Any use, dissemination, forwarding, printing or copying of this message is strictly prohibited unless written authority is given by an authorised member of PlusNet Technologies Ltd's management team. If you are not the addressed person or person's, be advised that you have received this message in error. If you have received this message in error, please notify ourselves immediately by telephone on +44 (0)114 2200000.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f4671,6c7221602d450b66 X-Google-Attributes: gidf4671,public X-Google-Thread: f6653,6c7221602d450b66 X-Google-Attributes: gidf6653,public X-Google-Thread: f88e1,6c7221602d450b66 X-Google-Attributes: gidf88e1,public X-Google-Thread: 10d053,6c7221602d450b66 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d053,public X-Google-Thread: 103ab4,6c7221602d450b66 X-Google-Attributes: gid103ab4,public From: lauren@zinger.force9.net (Lauren Child) Subject: Re: HELP I CANT BOOT Date: 1999/07/13 Message-ID: <fCGi3.2439$34.2809@wards> X-Deja-AN: 500494860 References: <biology-0907992152340001@sa6-p28.dreamscape.com> Followup-To: alt.sys.sun,aus.computers.sun,comp.sys.sun,comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.sys.sun.hardware X-Complaints-To: abuse@plus.net.uk X-Trace: wards 931870219 195.166.128.231 (Tue, 13 Jul 1999 13:50:19 BST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 13:50:19 BST Newsgroups: alt.sys.sun,aus.computers.sun,comp.sys.sun,comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.sys.sun.hardware