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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!yale.edu!jvnc.net!darwin.sura.net!wupost!newsfeed.rice.edu!rice!news.Rice.edu!rich From: rich@Rice.edu (Richard Murphey) Subject: Re: [386BSD] SCSI Bootstrap Method? In-Reply-To: mark@student.business.uwo.ca's message of Mon, 16 Nov 1992 14:13:23 GMT Message-ID: <RICH.92Nov16115857@omicron.Rice.edu> Sender: news@rice.edu (News) Reply-To: Rich@rice.edu Organization: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University References: <1992Nov16.060831.24807@nas.nasa.gov> <1c6BuB4w165w@student.business.uwo.ca> Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 17:58:57 GMT Lines: 25 In article <1c6BuB4w165w@student.business.uwo.ca> mark@student.business.uwo.ca (Mark Bramwell CS STAFF) writes: tweten@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Dave Tweten) writes: > I need to find out how to bootstrap 386bsd, given a machine which only > has a SCSI hard disk. When Julian Elischer posted his SCSI driver > code, I thought I had it made, but I haven't been able to get past the > need for a SCSI capable bootable filesystem diskette. I've searched > agate.berkeley.edu and ref.tfs.com, and haven't found a suitable *.fs > file on either. I need help! I have 386bsd running with no problems as far as booting is concerned. I am running an adaptec 1542 with a 1.2gig fujitsui scsi drive. I set the cmos drive to 0 'no drives' and let the scsi board boot the machine. All seems to be ok. I am running the stock kernel. Enabling the scsi adapter's bios also has beneficial effects even if you don't boot from the scsi drive. I've got an identical setup -- adaptec 1542 with a 1.2gig fujitsui scsi drive -- but boot from an ide. The bios on the adaptec 1542B seems to initialze the drive into a state which prevents error which occur otherwise when cold booting. Rich