failing to boot FreeBSD cdrom - openprom settings?

Reko Turja reko.turja at liukuma.net
Tue Nov 15 03:02:13 PST 2005


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Donald Teed" <donald.teed at gmail.com>
To: <freebsd-sparc64 at freebsd.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 6:13 AM
Subject: failing to boot FreeBSD cdrom - openprom settings?

> 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.

set-default boot-file

from OFW prompt should clean the variable.

(for better reference on OFW commands, see 
http://www.firmworks.com/QuickRef.html)

-Reko 



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