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From: pjx@ichaos.nullnet.fi (Petteri Jäntti)
Subject: Re: SunOS 4.1.3 Install Question... 
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In article <Cu7zFp.9zL@newera.ab.ca>,
Donald L. Gover <dlgover@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?
>

Have you checked the kernel configuration file for the SCSI id of the first
hard disk? On my SS10s running SunOS 4.1.3_U1, the first hard disk is
SCSI id 3. A disk with SCSI id 0 would be the fourth disk.

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