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From: triffid@iconz.co.nz (Alan Robson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: SunOS 4.1.3 Install Question...
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Date: 11 Aug 1994 13:40:13 GMT
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Donald L. Gover (dlgover@ne3.newera.ab.ca) wrote:
: I'm trying to install SunOS 4.1.3 on a old sparc 1 that has been put
: together with some spare parts. The disk I have is a Quantum ProDrive LPS
: 540. After successfuly labeling and formating the disk. The miniroot installs
: in the b partition and boots. The install continues to copy files to the
: disk and then requests a reboot. At this point the system tryies to boot
: but fails to even start with a "selected SCSI device is not responding"
: error. When you go into the new monitor and do a scsi probe the disk
: is there at scsi id 0. Does anyone know what might be wrong to prevent
: the system from seeing the disk at boot of VMUNIX when it can boot
: munix?
: Thanks Don.....
At the new mode of the PROM do a "printenv" and check the setting of of
the "boot-from" line. It should say something like "sd()" or possibly
"vmunix". To change this, use "setenv boot-from sd()"
Also check the target number on your hard disk. Sun have a remarkably
stupid hardware setup as follows:
Target Number Device Number
------------------------------
3 0
1 1
2 2
0 3
4 4
5 5
6 6
You should boot from: sd(n,m,p) where:
n = controller number (usually 0)
m = Device number (as per the above table)
p = Parition number for the boot partition (again, usually 0).
The convention is to switch the system disk to target number 3 and
therefore you would boot from: sd(0,0,0) which is usually abbreviated
to sd(). If you have a different target switched on your disk (which is
perfectly legal) you will need to boot from a diffferent device number.
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