According to Torsten Duwe:
>
>in it. To initially get there you have to boot a GENERIC kernel using the
>"-a" for "ASKNAME" (of root partition). It seems you run ScumOS (or even
>worse - Solaris ?) on sd0a ? I'm not too familiar with Sun's OpenProms, but
>you should be able to specify the "-a" flag somewhere along the boot process.
>

You should be able to do that from the prom command line.  It depends
on what version of the prom you have.  With the "old" style you do
something like:

b sd(0,3,3)

For later versions of the prom the command should be something like:

boot /sbus/esp/sd@0,0:d

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