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bexley-quickstation will not boot

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Rodriguez)
Thu Feb 18 23:24:04 1999

To: hotline@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 23:24:03 EST
From: "Aaron M. Rodriguez" <aaronrod@MIT.EDU>

The quickstation at Bexley has never worked.  As of right now, the screen is white, with some text displayed.  There is a prompt, as well.  The text on the screen reads as followed:

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SPARCstation 5, Keyboard Present
ROM Rev. 2.15, 32 MB memory installed,  Serial #3598177.
Ethernet address 8:0:20:22:79:62, Host ID: 8036e761.

Rebooting with command:
Boot device: /iommu/sbus/espdma@5, 8400000/esp@5,,8800000/sd@3,0 File and args:
bootblk: can't find the boot program
Program terminated
Type help for more information
ok
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the ok is actually a prompt.
If you could come down and fix it, or email me a solution, it would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you for your time,
Aaron Rodriguez
Student Consultant
Computing Helpdesk

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