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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