Subject: Re: Booting from a SCSI drive?
To: Mason Loring Bliss <mason@acheron.middleboro.ma.us>
From: John F. Woods <jfw@jfwhome.funhouse.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 02/25/1998 16:12:30
> I'm curious if there's anything special to be done to get a SCSI drive to
> be bootable. A friend of mine bought a Jaz SCSI controller, and we popped
> it into his system. After fiddling around a bit (and discovering that Plug-
> and-Play being enabled on the SCSI controller ended up resetting the SCSI
> bus is a bad sort of way) we got things so that NetBSD could see the SCSI
> drive he had. We did a full install, using a boot floppy and an EtherNet,
> and things proceeded smoothly. However, when the system boots, it whirrs
> and buzzes a bit, as normal, and then tells us there there's no operating
> system to be had.

What's the SCSI ID of the Jaz drive?  I think most BIOSes will only boot 
ID 0.  Does the NetBSD bootstrap come up at all, or is the BIOS reporting
"no operating system"?

> PS: Another quick question... Is there an easy way I can duplicate my boot
> floppy?

Read:	dd if=/dev/rfd0a of=/var/tmp/FLOPPY bs=18k
Write:	dd if=/var/tmp/FLOPPY of=/dev/rfd0a bs=18k