Booting From the Network

To use a Sun Quad FastEthernet SBus adapter ethernet interface as the boot device for Solaris 2.5, 2.5.1, or 2.5.1 Hardware: 4/97 systems, perform the following tasks:

1. At the ok prompt type:

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   ok show-devs
   

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   The show-devs command lists the system devices. You should see the full path name of the qfe devices, similar to the example below:

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   /sbus@1f,0/SUNW,qfe@1,8c30000
   /sbus@1f,0/SUNW,qfe@1,8c20000
   /sbus@1f,0/SUNW,qfe@1,8c10000
   /sbus@1f,0/SUNW,qfe@1,8c00000

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   If your system is running the Solaris 2.4 operating environment, make sure that you have changed device names from SUNW,qfe to qfe. See "Changing the Device Names on Solaris 2.4 Systems" for more information.

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   Note -

   You need to select only one of these qfe devices for booting.

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2. At the ok prompt type:

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   ok boot (full path name of the 
   qfe device)
   

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