Subject: Can't Boot SCSI Disks
To: Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net>
From: Gordon W. Ross <gwr@netbsd.org>
List: port-sun3
Date: 12/30/1998 15:55:35
You mean:
  x = target * 8 + LUN
Right?


Curt Sampson writes:
 > 
 > I'm having a bit of a problem with my pair of Sun 3/60s (one mono,
 > one colour). Both boot fine from the net, and let me install the
 > miniroot to any of a number of external drives. (To be precise, a
 > SUN207, 365 MB and 520 MB Quantum Lightnings, and a 1 GB Seagate
 > Hawk.) However, none of these drives will boot from the prom of
 > either machine (using the `b sd(,x,1)' syntax, where x is the SCSI
 > ID). The one machine returns a SCSI device timeout, the other
 > returns device not found. (The same message is given for any value
 > of x.)
 > 
 > All these disks had disklabels edited with `edlabel /dev/rsd0c'
 > and the miniroot copied with `dd if=miniroot of=/dev/rsd0b'.
 > 
 > Has anyone any thoughts on why this might be happening?
 > 
 > cjs
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