I have bought an Ultra Sparc 2 At a goverment auction. it cam with no hard drives . So I installed two 2.5 gig SCA drives and tried to boot to the OK prompt but all I get is " bootdevice: net file and args: Network Link setup Failed. Please Check Cable and Try Again. Timeout waiting for ARP/RARP packet". it does this over and over an I cant get it to do any thing else?????

The first thing it does is it look for the ethernet connection, which you obvioulsy do not have present, and it tried to setup networking. However, since you do not have it connected to a network, it is halting. The rememdy escapes me at the momemt, but you should be able to find the answer by searching deja newsgroups. I saw this topic a few times in comp.unix.admin, though I do not recommend posting it there. Good luck

you need to set the boot-device to disk and then make sure disk is an alias for the disk that you want to boot from. here's how to do it: Get to the Ok prompt by typing stop-A. Then type setenv boot-device disk then type reset-all (it will reboot and go through post again). hit Stop-A to get to the ok prompt when its doing the memory check. type probe-scsi-all and make a note which disk target has your bootable partition. type devalias and check to see that disk is an alias for the correct scsi disk. (compare it to the scsi probe results). if it is not then type: devunalias disk followed by: devalias disk /....(fill it in) Next check that the machine is to boot automatically after the post. type: printenv auto-boot? (include the question mark). this should be set to true. If not type: setenv auto-boot? true type boot and it should boot from your disk you specified and boot into the OS when the machine is restarted from now on. good luck!