Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 00:13:16 -0400 From: Donald Teed <donald.teed@gmail.com> To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: failing to boot FreeBSD cdrom - openprom settings? Message-ID: <dd4da0390511142013j20b05f66gb3d7c7fdc4d165cb@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi there, I have a boot CD for freebsd 6 on sparc - minimal boot only burned from ISO= . I want to test drive a FreeBSD install on a spare disk I have on the Ultra 60. Much earlier I had made a devalias in nvram for cdrom and this has worked for booting such things as the sparc64 Gentoo CD. Somehow boot-file in openprom was set to 'cprboot -F' - which was there before I had the machine. openprom with a Linux CDROM normally just complained about there being nothing after -F and then ignored boot-file. I've tried 'setenv boot-file bsd' or boot/boot0 and various attempts to set it to null, but I still cannot boot the FreeBSD boot only CDROM. Perhaps really nulling boot-file would help but single and double quoted null or no value have not worked. So far no solutions found with google and nothing about it in the BSD release notes, handbook, etc., so if anyone can suggest something to try it would be great... --Donald Teed [image: Edit/Delete Message]<http://www.bsdforums.org/forums/editpost.php?do=3Deditpost&p=3D194= 154>
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