[ug-bosug] Bios set up in Sun Blade 1500 Silver

[Moinak Ghosh]

Once you have booted the Sun Blade 1500 box normally
from harddisk, pressing the "Stop" key and "A" together
will drop you into the "OK>" prompt.

Regards,
Moinak,

Madhu K R wrote:
> Hi Kumar,
>    It is a sparc workstation not Intel or AMD. SO there is no concept 
> of BIOS here.
> In sparc environment we have something called OBP (Open Boot Prom). It 
> is like a command prom which looks like "OK>"
>
> So once you get into this prom, boot thru cdrom using command OK>boot 
> cdrom
>
> Then you should be able to install solaris.
>
> PS: Please note that you need to have Solaris 11 Sparc version to 
> install solaris on this box.
>
> regards,
> Madhu
>
> Kumar Bipallav Mani wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Today I tried installing Solaris 11 on Sun Blade 1500 Silver machines 
>> in my college but I could not go into the BIOS set up.Since my tests 
>> are going on so I did not have much time to try out different buttons 
>> myself..though I did try F1,F2,F12(during startup) but it simply did 
>> not go into the BIOS .
>> So please tell me how to get into the BIOS.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Kumar Bipallav Manisilver
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