Re: booting external scsi disk on my sparc lx

[janjaap@stack.nl (Janjaap van Velthooven)]

dfinn@faderautomatic.com wrote and mailed:
> 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

I assume by the above statement that the scsi disk is at ID 5?
I vaguely remember something about sun roms assuming ID 0-3 are disks
and 4-6 are cd's or tape's or something...

I have A sparkserver 5 booting flawlessly from an external disk at ID 2
You could try to rejumper your external disk to a free number in the range
0-3.
I could be wrong but I can't see how it hurts to try...

> > > 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.

	Janjaap van Velthooven
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