AHA!

it is done - many thanks for the help and the info (strange convention
3120) <scratches chin with one eyebrow held high>

H


Hezekiah McMurray
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
California Institute of Technology
(626)395-6052
hez@caltech.edu

Always remember - if you would have used Pine - none of this would be
happening right now.

On Mon, 15 May 2000, Dave McGuire wrote:

> On May 15, Hezekiah Mcmurray wrote:
> > If I type boot0 or boot3 I get the can't open devie thingo --
> 
>   "boot disk" tells the machine to boot from scsi id #3.
> 
> > not really familiar with the unti3<->unti0 swapping madness (????)...
> 
>   For really crazy reasons, for the introduction of the sun4c line
> (ss1, ss1+ ss2, ipc, ipx, slc, elc) Sun decided to swap scsi IDs 3
> and 0 in their boot ROMs and default kernel configs.  So, where we
> might order our disks on a more sane system 0123, on a post-sun4 SPARC
> box we'd order them 3120.
> 
>   Note that this is *not* a requirement...just a default
> configuration.  You can override this in the nvram ("setenv
> boot-device disk0" or similar) and in the SunOS kernel config files.
> NetBSD comes with a kernel config file called GENERIC_SCSI3 which
> performs this historical remapping for you, so you don't have to go to
> the trouble of swapping your disks around when you move to NetBSD.
> 
> 
>                     -Dave McGuire
>