Here is what I have so far:

At boot time I get the following message on the screen:

/iommu/sbus/espdma@5,8400000/esp@5,800000/sd@3,0 File and Args: illegal
instruction

There are two disks on the system. The boot disk looks like this in fdisk:

Device Flag   Start     End   Blocks    ID  System
/dev/sda1         0     997   2070769   83  Linux native
/dev/sda2       997    1021     49848   82 Linux swap
/dev/sda3         0    1021   2120617   5  whole disk

The second disk looks like:

Device Flag   Start     End   Blocks    ID  System
/dev/sdb1         0    2036   1026144   83  Linux native

The eprom environment shows the boot-device as disk followed by net for
default setting. The boot-file is blank for both the set and default values.

Also after I boot up and the computer get running I get the following
message every so often:

esp0: SCSI bus reset interrupt

Does this have anything to do with the not being able to boot from the disk?

I am not sure I understand what "specifics about your boot device" means
other than this. Let me know if I need to give you more info.

David
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[mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Tim
Fadden
Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2001 1:31 AM
To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
Subject: Re: Sun Box will not auto boot


David Demland wrote:
>
> I have my Sparc 5 up and running now. I have a Debian distro of Linux
> running on it. I want to make it a firewall but I have one problem. When I
> boot it up there is a message about a bad argument from the boot prom. If
I
> boot it from the boot floppy I made it boots. This means that I must type
> the command "boot floppy" every time I boot up. If I do not type the
command
> it can not boot. What to I have to do to boot from the hard drive
> automatically at boot up time?
>
> David
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>From the ok prompt type in:

ok printenv

you will see a vairiable called boot-device
normally it should be set to disk with the command

ok setenv boot-device disk

depending on what scsi id your boot disk is.

you can also see/set these vairiables with the os up with the command

eeprom

the syntax for setting vairables is

# eeprom boot-device=disk

Give me specifics about your boot device, and I can set you up.
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