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open boot command
Name: saumen Date: November 16, 2001 at 12:31:18 Pacific
Name: ripon Date: November 18, 2001 at 01:42:24 Pacific
Reply:
Hi there,
I am totally new in Solaris/Unix. As I have gone through few books, it seems that Open Boot interface is only available on SPARC platform, not on Intel because Open Boot PROM consists of two chips on each system (mother) board – the startup PROM and the NVRAM chip.
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Response Number 2
Name: Abdul Date: November 18, 2001 at 20:14:57 Pacific
Reply:
Hi There, Ripon is absolutely correct.. Open Boot is only supported on SPARC machines..
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