May 15, 2025

Sun 3/60 -- Boot messages

I could power up one of my systems an play with the ROM. And I might.
But for now, I am poking around on the internet to see what examples of messages from the boot process I can find. Along the way I found various interesting pages, as follows:

From a Sun 3/160

First set values in the EEPROM so it will boot from the intel ethernet ie(). 
>q 019
EEPROM 019: 73? 69
EEPROM 01A: 64? 65
EEPROM 01B: 00? ----Enter Control-C to exit
Then boot: 
>EEPROM: Using RS232 A port.
Selftest Completed.

Sun Workstation, Model Sun-3/160M.
ROM Rev 3.0, 16MB memory installed, Serial #9944.
Ethernet address 8:0:20:1:7C:32, Host ID 110026D8.

Testing 16 Megabytes of Memory ... Completed.

Auto-boot in progress...

EEPROM boot device...Boot: sd(0,0,0)

Device not found
>b ie()
Boot: ie(0,0,0)
Using IP Address 192.168.2.22 = C0A80216
Booting from tftp server at 192.168.2.1 = C0A80201
Downloaded 31056 bytes from tftp server.

Boot: ie(0,0,0)vmunix
Size: 494840+80288+106616 bytes
Sun UNIX 4.2 Release 3.5EXPORT (GENERIC) #1: Tue Dec 1 19:03:42 PST 1987