Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin From: osystems@world.std.com (Cary T Conrad) Subject: Re: booting a 386i without a pnpd. In-Reply-To: jon@robots.ox.ac.uk's message of 29 May 92 21:35:18 GMT Message-ID: Sender: osystems@world.std.com (Cary T Conrad) Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA References: <3591@inca.comlab.ox.ac.uk> Date: Tue, 2 Jun 1992 22:54:10 GMT Lines: 26 >I recently had to help out on a network with a mix of 386is and sparcs, one >of the 386is was the ypmaster and they wished to move the master onto one of >the sparcs. The problem after doing this was you could no longer reboot any Maybe you caught the post "booting from a 386i floppy". The reason I posted was precisely this problem. In short, YP is brain dead. I hate it and only use it(NIS) to share a few pieces of information. What I ended up doing was bringing the blasted thing up using expert mode on a SUNOS distribution tape, backing off all of the important stuff and then doing a complete reinstall. I can hear the flames building, go ahead and try another way. I spent 2 weeks dicking with the blasted thing using every trick in the book. If I had done it the brute force method, as described, I would have been done by now. The only problem with the reinstall was the tape had a media error!!!! Got another from SUN. UGH Still would like to know the trick to making a boot floppy for a 386i. Came close but never got it to behave. Oh well...... CC conrad@osystems.com