Subject: Re: Problems booting from HD...
To: Mike Frisch <mfrisch@saturn.tlug.org>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-sparc
Date: 12/16/1995 10:03:54
On Sat, 16 Dec 1995 01:21:35 -0500 (EST) 
 Mike Frisch <mfrisch@saturn.tlug.org> wrote:

 > 	I finally got NetBSD 1.1 installed on to the hard disk (the only
 > SCSI device on this machine) on my 4/110.  Now my problem is that when I
 > type "b sd(0,0,0)" at the PROM monitor, the PROM monitor gives me "Device
 > not found".  Prior to that I was net booting from ie() which worked just
 > fine.  The disk is definitely there because when I net boot and mount the 
 > disk partitions, everything works just fine.

What is the SCSI ID of the device?  If it's ID 1, you'll probably have to 
use something like sd(0,8,0) ...

Did you install the NetBSD boot code on the disk?

 > 	I noticed in the NetBSD 1.1 INSTALL document that it tells how to
 > specify the NetBSD kernel using the "OpenBOOT ROM", but I cannot put my
 > PROM monitor into "new" mode using "n" at the ">" prompt. 

The Sun 4 systems, unlike SPARCstations, do not have OpenBOOT.

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