Summary: E450 trying to auto-boot from net

Thanks to all who were kind enough not to call me names when they told
me that the key is likely in the diag switch.

Tomorrow morning when I check it I'm sure this will be the case.

Thanks to:
Geoff Reed
Brett Lymn
Ben Green  
Ken Zachmann
Jed Dobson  
Richard Smith
Steve Mickeler
Shannon Ward 
Stefan Molnar 
Kristopher Bris
Eyal Edri      
Dennis Martens  


Original post:

On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 04:59:41PM -0700, Nate Campi wrote:
> I have an E450 running solaris 8 that tries to boot from the 
> network every time it reboots. We've tried setting the default 
> to disk first by using (at the openboot prompt)
> 
>  setenv boot-device disk
> 
> but no matter what it tries to boot from net. We even tried
> 
>  set-defaults
> 
> to get the default behavior of booting from disk, but to no avail. You
> can break from the attempt to boot from the network and type
> 
>  boot disk
> 
> and it boots fine. How can we get this machine to auto-boot from disk?
> It has a regular built in hme NIC.
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