Subject: Re: Got my Sun3 to boot NetBSD!!!!
To: Jeremy Cooper <jeremy@broder.com>
From: David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com>
List: port-sun3
Date: 05/28/1997 21:03:01
Damn... I knew it had been too long (oops :)
FWIW the install notes could be clearer on the this (just checked
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.2/sun3/INSTALL
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The numbers in parentheses above are:
controller (usually zero)
unit number (SCSI ID * 8, in hexadecimal)
partition number
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:)
David/abs abs@anim.dreamworks.com
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On Wed, 28 May 1997, Jeremy Cooper wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, 28 May 1997, David Brownlee wrote:
>
> > > [ can't boot sd(0,10,1) ]
> >
> > Is sd(0,10,1) atypo on that - I'm pretty sure sd(0,1,1) would be
> > the second disk (I'm a long way from my sun3 rigt now :(
>
> I'm sure it's been discussed several hundred times, but just as a
> reminder:
>
> sd( <controller>, <target:lun>, <partition>)
>
> To determine what drive you want to boot from, take the SCSI ID, multiply
> by 8 and then convert to hexadecimal. Once you do it, you never forget =)
>
> -J
>