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Name: paul pena
Date: May 19, 2002 at 10:26:37 Pacific
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Is there a way to change the boot on a Sparc Ultra 10 with solaris 9 beta on first bootup. Is there a hot key on the keyboard that will give the options to change the boot device.



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Name: Remco
Date: June 13, 2002 at 06:39:15 Pacific
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$ eeprom boot-device="second device"
$ init 6

or after post in press "stop A"
and type in the OK-prompt>
ok> boot "Second_device" (disk1 disk2 disk3)

goodluck



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