Subject: Re: Sun 3/80 questions
To: Henry W Miller <mill0440@gold.tc.umn.edu>
From: Rick Copeland <rickgc@calweb.com>
List: port-sun3
Date: 09/12/1997 09:06:23
How do I change the "NWRAM"?

Rick Copeland



At 10:18 AM 9/12/97 -0500, Henry W Miller wrote:
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>On Fri, 12 Sep 1997, Rick Copeland wrote:
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>> I have picked up a Sun 3/80 (my second) but I cannot get a hard disk to be
>> recognized in it.  I pulled the hard disk out of my first 3/80 that has
>> NetBSD on it and runs perfect but the new one doesn't see it.  With a
>> monocrome 19" Sun monitor and kybd connected to it, it says it is sending an
>> address out (to a rarp server I guess) and all the diags initially come up
>> looking resonable.  Anyone got any ideas?
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>Check the eeprom (nvram?) you can force a sun to boot from the network
>even if there is a harddrive.  That is one setting is for boot order, and
>if you only have netbooting in there, it is impossibal to do a local boot.
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