On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Greg Dunn wrote:

# OK, I'll admit that I'm not good at elementary math sometimes... my 
# advanced calculus and diff. eq. pushed it all out of my brain.  :-)
# 
# But after successfully booting my SPARC LX off a floppy, installing 
# from the CD (NetBSD 1.4.1 - it was all I had handy) and configuring 
# the system, I cannot for the life of me get the sucker to boot off 
# the HD.
# 
# My HD is at SCSI 0 (yes, I know the Sun boot PROM sees it 
# differently) and I can exit the NetBSD installer and mount /dev/sd0a 
# at /mnt.  It shows the root partition when my kernel "netbsd" 
# resides.  I quit to the Sun monitor and type:
# 
# ok setenv boot-file netbsd
# ok setenv boot-device /sbus/esp/sd@0,0
# ok boot
# 
# as suggested in the install file, and I get
# 
# SCSI device 0,0 is not responding
# Can't open boot device
# 
# I changed boot-device to /sbus/esp/sd@3,0 just to be sure I didn't 
# misunderstand the instructions, but it doesn't work either.  In fact, 
# I tried all 6 devices without luck.  Grr.  What stupid simple mistake 
# am I making? (grovel, grovel)

Have you tried 'probe-scsi' to see what's going on there?

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