On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 08:23:47PM +0100, Terrence Vergauwen wrote:

 > I have recenlty aquired a DIGITAL Personal Workstation 433a, and would like to run NetBSD on it.
 > But SRM does not recognize my SCSI controller (Adaptec 2940UW), the netbsd kernel does when i boot the install floppies.
 > 
 > I have been able to do the installation to my disk, but after a power cycle i cannot boot off my disk.
 > 
 > How can i make a boot floppy which boots off my scsi disk ?, without another NetBSD system handy (i have none to date, except for the not-booting alpha).

The SRM console does not have support for the Adaptec SCSI controller.
You have to get a SCSI controller supported by the SRM console to boot
from a SCSI disk, or boot from an IDE disk.

Sorry, but there's no other way, really.

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>