Subject: Re: booting adaptec/scsi disk on a 433a
To: None <jkunz@unixag-kl.fh-kl.de, port-alpha@netbsd.org>
From: Ross Harvey <ross@ghs.com>
List: port-alpha
Date: 02/15/2001 14:28:02
> From: jkunz@unixag-kl.fh-kl.de
>
> On 15 Feb, Jason R Thorpe wrote:
>
> > 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.
> Boting a kernel from floppy that is configured to mount /dev/sd0a on /?
> I do similar things on my i386, because the BIOS has no SDMS for the
> Symbios SCSI controller. 

Sure, and there are other tricks as well, but after I sent him the whole
gory list of exotic boot options we have (off the mailing list, as it has
been discussed here before) the decision was to plug in an IDE drive.

So Jason's short answer was the bottom line after all. :-)

	--Ross