[Sunhelp] Re: SunOS 4.1 CD Problem

[Steffen Grunewald]

On Thu 2000-10-12 (09:34), blake.r.matheny at mail.sprint.com wrote:
> From Bill:
> 	I always used b sd(0,6,2)
> Boot cdrom does not work, I get an Illegal Instruction error. My NVRAM 
> is brand new, I replaced it a week ago. No one tampered with this 
> machine, like I said brand new NVRAM.

But is your NVRAM set up correctly for your machine type?

  Yes it's just plain old 4.1, and 
> 4.1.4 isn't an option because I don't have that on CD. I can't type b 
> sd(0,6,2) because my OBP is too new

??? which release ??? where did you get it from ? another machine ???

  and that syntax is no longer 
> supported. If you have any ideas please let me know. Thanks.
> -Blake

Could you look for the defined aliases ? cdrom might be pointing to the
wrong partition number. (SunOS cds are partitioned for the supported
hardware - sun4 is part 1, sun4c is 2, etc. IIRC)

Steffen
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