unixpowered.com » jumpstart http://www.unixpowered.com/blog Wed, 21 Jul 2010 13:42:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc en hourly 1 Forcing network speed and duplex in Open Boot prompt http://www.unixpowered.com/blog/2008/08/03/forcing-network-speed-and-duplex-in-open-boot-prompt/ http://www.unixpowered.com/blog/2008/08/03/forcing-network-speed-and-duplex-in-open-boot-prompt/#comments Sun, 03 Aug 2008 20:04:31 +0000 somedude http://wayciak.wordpress.com/?p=43 I had a Sun box attached to a switch I had not control over and I needed to jumpstart it. Unfortunately, I was getting nowhere. After crosschecking everything in my setup the only thing I did not try was to force speed and duplex on the Sun box to see if it would start booting.

I wondered if it would be possible to do so in Open Boot prompt. So I fired up the most logical man page in the given situation – the boot man page. Sure enough it is possible to force speed and duplex from ok prompt:

{1} ok boot net:speed=100,duplex=full - install

And off it went happily booting…

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