[SunRescue] PROM is stupid, why?

[James Lockwood]

On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Gregory Leblanc wrote:

> So why is the boot OS on my SS2 here quite so stupid?  :-)  I fired it up,
> went into the new command mode, and told it 'test /memory', and it tested
> 0MB of memory.  Once I set the diag-switch? to true, and ran test /memory,
> it does what one would expect.  Anybody know the logic behind this?

You probably have "selftest-#megs" set to 0 to speed up POST.  Diag mode
overrides this parameter. 

-James