Re: booting external scsi disk on my sparc lx

[<dfinn@faderautomatic.com>]

yeah, I tried it with :a, :a/bsd and other variations as well.  Still
nothing.

On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, adam morley wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 11:34:12AM -0500, dfinn@apathy.faderautomatic.com wrote:
> > I've checked online and haven't been able to find much about this.  I'm
> > having trouble booting off of an external scsi disk attached to my sparc
> > lx.  Here's the brief story: I got my lx with one 2 gig internal drive.
> > That drive acts up at times and spits out IO errors, essentially I think
> > there are just bad spots on the drive and it's old.  I was given an
> > external 4 gig drive.  I formatted the external drive, cpio'ed everything
> > off of the internal drive over to it and it works fine.  I'm running off
> > of it now.  The only way I've found that works to boot off of it is to do
> > boot -a and then provide this as the boot device:
> > /iommu@0,10000000/sbus@0,10001000/espdma@4,8400000/esp@4,8800000/sd@5,0:a
> >
> > This works fine.  I'd like to just boot normally from the boot PROM but I
> > can't get that working.  I've made a device alias to that and tried it
> > different ways but I can't get anything working.
> >
> > This is what happens:
> >
> > Rebooting with command:
> > /iommu@0,10000000/sbus@0,10001000/espdma@4,8400000/esp@4,8800000/sd@5,0
> > Boot device:
> > /iommu@0,10000000/sbus@0,10001000/espdma@4,8400000/esp@4,8800000/sd@5,0
> > File and args: bsd
> > Instruction Access Exception
> > Type  help  for more information
>
> above you had :a at the end, here you don't.  have you tried with :a?
>
> >
> > I've looked through the disklabel man page and I think I've installed the
> > bootstrap correctly.
> >
> > Any help would be really appreciated.
> > Thanks
> >
> >
> > Dan Finn
> > Unix Systems Engineer
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> >
>
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> thanks
> adam
>
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