On Fri, 12 Sep 1997, Rick Copeland wrote:

> I have picked up a Sun 3/80 (my second) but I cannot get a hard disk to be
> recognized in it.  I pulled the hard disk out of my first 3/80 that has
> NetBSD on it and runs perfect but the new one doesn't see it.  With a
> monocrome 19" Sun monitor and kybd connected to it, it says it is sending an
> address out (to a rarp server I guess) and all the diags initially come up
> looking resonable.  Anyone got any ideas?

Check the eeprom (nvram?) you can force a sun to boot from the network
even if there is a harddrive.  That is one setting is for boot order, and
if you only have netbooting in there, it is impossibal to do a local boot.