Subject: Re: Boot question
To: Paul Kranenburg <pk@cs.few.eur.nl>
From: Eduardo E. Horvath <eeh@one-o.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 02/07/1997 07:53:34
On Fri, 7 Feb 1997, Paul Kranenburg wrote:

> You probably do not have bootblocks on this partition. Install those, or
> -- since you appear to have another bootable disk attached -- try:
> 
> 	boot -a
> 
> and answer `disk1' when asked for the device name, and `netbsd' when asked
> for a kernel (I don't remember exactly what the SunOS bootblock prompts
> look like).

You should also be able to specify:

	boot disk1 /netbsd

if you have more recent PROMs/bootblocks.

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