I recently purchased a NeXTstation color used. It came with no software disks. It has the OS pre-installed. When I boot the machine, it checks the disk and starts to boot. Then it says starting Network services...and hangs. It never gets any further.
I tried entering into the rom monitor and booting from that point. It tells me the network is unreachable, and then just hangs.
: I recently purchased a NeXTstation color used. It came with no software : disks. It has the OS pre-installed. When I boot the machine, it checks the : disk and starts to boot. Then it says starting Network services...and : hangs. It never gets any further. : : I tried entering into the rom monitor and booting from that point. It tells : me the network is unreachable, and then just hangs. : : Any help?
Yes, it most probably has a previous network configuration and is may be even part of a (former) netinfo-network, not being the master itself, so it look for one.
The simplest thing to do is to boot verbose (-v) from the ROM-Monitor (you don't have to select 'single-user' mode for this) and then press Control-C when the machine gives up to connect to the network and tells you so. Then log in as 'root' and make an initial proper network configuration or change the current one to reflect your setup.
When all else fails, there are 'empty' "template" in another directory so that you can 'start from scratch' by copying them over.
But before that try to 'fix' your current machinestate, when you can.
In article <EvPt6.36879$hf.13599...@news1.elmhst1.il.home.com>, Cory M. Stargel <c.star...@home.com> wrote:
>I recently purchased a NeXTstation color used. It came with no software >disks. It has the OS pre-installed. When I boot the machine, it checks the >disk and starts to boot. Then it says starting Network services...and >hangs. It never gets any further.
>I tried entering into the rom monitor and booting from that point. It tells >me the network is unreachable, and then just hangs.
>Any help?
>Thanks in advance.
>Cory
Sounds like it's trying to boot from the network rather than from the SCSI where the root resides. The previous owner may have it set to boot from the network instead of the harddrive. The default is whatever was the last choice to boot from.
Booting from the network requires one to enter "ben" for the booting method in the ROM monitor. Booting from the hardrive requires "bsd" as the ROM command. Try that in the ROM window.
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