Subject: How to get non-Sun SCSI drive working on Sparc IPX?
To: help @ netbsd <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: Beaker \(aka Jeff W.\) <beaker@myrealbox.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 10/28/2002 17:37:47
I'm trying to get a Fujitsu 4GB SCSI drive to work on a Sun IPX, but it 
didn't come with Solaris on it so there isn't a Sun boot label on it. 
This apparently causes the install to barf on the Sparc. What I'm 
wondering is how to get a valid boot label on the disk. Can it be done 
on another platform (ie i386-port), then moved over to sparc, or can I 
somehow use a working netbsd/sparc system to create a valid 
boot/disklabel (ie using 'dd')? The disklabel manpage mentions some 
platforms needing some bootstrap executables but it wasn't clear how to 
go about doing this. I do happen to have an old SunOS system available, 
so maybe something could be done via this?

~Beaker