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Operating Systems Solaris How to get to the OK prompt without Sun keyboard Post 50247 by sspirito on Tuesday 20th of April 2004 06:48:10 AM
Old 04-20-2004
How to get to the OK prompt without Sun keyboard

Hi all,
I have just replaced the HDD on a Ultra 5 Spark machine, now I need to reinstall Solaris 9.
The problem is: how do I get to the OK prompt without a Sun keyboard in order to boot from CD?

At moment when I power on the machine I get the following error:
Timeout Waiting for ARP/RARP Packet
Probably because it's trying to boof off the network.
 

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rarp(7P)							     Protocols								  rarp(7P)

NAME
rarp, RARP - Reverse address resolution protocol DESCRIPTION
You use the RARP protocol to map dynamically between the Internet Protocol (IP) and network interface MAC addresses. RARP is often used to boot a Solaris client. RARP clients include the SPARC boot PROM, x86 boot floppy, SunOS kernel, and ifconfig(1M). in.rarpd(1M) provides the server-side implementation. RARP request timeout behavior in application-layer clients is governed by the /etc/inet/rarp default file. To tune the number of retries an application attempts before giving up, set the RARP_RETRIES variable in /etc/inet/rarp. If the file is not present or RARP_RETRIES is not initialized within it, applications retry a maximum of five times with a eight second wait between retries. FILES
/etc/inet/rarp ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +------------------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +------------------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface Stability (protocol) | Standard | +------------------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface Stability (defaults file) | Unstable | +------------------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface Stability (RARP_RETRIES) | Unstable | +------------------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
ifconfig(1M), in.rarpd(1M), arp(7P) Reverse Address Resolution Protocol RFC 903. June, 1984 R. Finlayson, T. Mann, J.C. Mogul, M. Theimer SunOS 5.11 28 May 2005 rarp(7P)
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