WOrking with unknown Sun Computers
SHARE |
|
WOrking with unknown Sun Computers |
by Bill Degnan - 09/15/2026 12:05 |
|
probing a sun system
things you can do from the ok prompt: 1. set your external scsi boot device to address 6 2. from the ok prompt: (if hard drive, and fallback to default "disk"): setenv boot-device disk6 disk (if CD rom or similar and then try disk6) ok setenv boot-device cdrom disk6 (sometimes you have to enter it this way) ok setenv boot-device disk@6,0 disk 3. view changes ok printenv boot-device 4. apply and reboot (one or the other depending on rev of openBoot ok reset-all ok reset Three things can happen 1. drive is not available or error 2. System boot up into SunOS of some sort (expect errors if the external device is from a different computer than the computer being used to probe the drive 3. The error message "The file just loaded does not appear to be executable" means OpenBoot successfully communicated with the external storage drive, found a partition structure, and read a file into memory. However, because OpenBoot expected a bootable kernel file (like vmunix or inetboot) containing specific Sun SPARC executable headers (ELF or a.out formats), it stopped and threw this error when it found incompatible data instead.Since this is a dedicated storage drive and not boot media, this behavior is completely expected: Reply |
|
Resources:
Popular Topics and FAQs
Past Issues:
Before we switched over to a blog format, past page archives here:
Vintage Computer Festival East 3.0 June 2006
Commodore B Series Prototypes July 2006
VOLSCAN - The first desktop computer with a GUI? Oct 2006
ROBOTS! - Will Robots Take Over? Nov 2006
Magnavox Mystery - a Computer, or? Jan 2007
The 1973 Williams Paddle Ball Arcade Computer Game Feb 2007
The Sperry UNIVAC 1219 Military Computer May 2007
VCF East 2007 - PET 30th Anniversary June/July 2007
The Electronic Brain August 2007
Community Memory and The People's Computer Company October 2007
Charles Babbage's Calculating Machine December 2007
Vintage Computing - A 1983 Perspective February 2008
Laptops and Portables May 2008
From Giant Brains to Hobby Computers - 1957 to 1977 August 2008
Historic Computer Magazines November 2008
World's Smallest Electronic Brain - Simon (1950) December 2008 - Feb 2009
Free Program Listings Spring 2009
Computer Music Summer 2009
Popular Electronics Jan/Feb 1975 - Altair 8800 Fall 2009
Early Microcomputer Mass Storage Summer 2010
wuderbuss mb s 100
This image was selected at random from the archive. Click image for more photos and files from this set.