[Sunhelp] prom name

Jeremiah Bascue jbascue at teleport.com
Wed Jun 14 12:02:09 CDT 2000


Thanks Magnus!
I'm running a Sparc E250 with Solaris 2.6. 

The error message states:
"pmconfig: /etc/power.conf line (30) failed to convert mount point
/dev/md.dsk.d1 to prom name: Invalid argument"

Line 30 of power.conf reads:
"statefile	/.CPR"

What do I do?
Jeremiah


Magnus Abrante wrote:
> 
> Basicly, the prom finds all devices when you reset/poweron a machine, then
> it will translate those and send them to the OS, so that the OS will know
> which devices that are attached to the machine.
> 
> Which OS are we talking about and which hardware?
> 
> > Does anyone know what a prom name is? I've recently encountered an error
> > on boot that uses this expression in regards to 'converting a mount
> > point to a prom name'.
> > What gives?
> > Many thanks in advance, and perhaps some home-baked cookies in the mail
> > if you can help me,
> 
>         //Magnus Abrante
> /* This is not the opinion of my company, its just my own */





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