Subject: Re: Indy harddisk problems
To: None <hendrik@scholz.net>
From: Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@informatik.fh-regensburg.de>
List: port-sgimips
Date: 10/26/2001 13:08:04
On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Hendrik Scholz wrote:
> Boot: scsi(0)disk(4)rdisk(0)partition(0)/netbsd
> devopen: scsi(0)disk(4)rdisk(0)partition(0) type scsi file /netbsd
> diskopen: 0,2,0 scsi(0)disk(4)rdisk(0)partition(0)
> open scsi(0)disk(4)rdisk(0)partition(0)/netbsd: No such file or directory
> Boot failed!  Halting...

Congratulations, you have a working bootloader! Now you just need to give
it something to boot! :-)


> Do I need to reserve any special diskspace for the boot loader or is my
> setup shown above usable ?

looks good.

FWIW, here's my prom settings:

>> ls
scsi(0)disk(2)rdisk(0)partition(8)/:
sgiboot
>> printenv
OSLoadOptions=auto
SystemPartition=scsi(0)disk(2)rdisk(0)partition(8)
OSLoadPartition=scsi(0)disk(2)rdisk(0)partition(0)
OSLoader=sgiboot
OSLoadFilename=/netbsd
AutoLoad=Yes
TimeZone=PST8PDT
console=d
diskless=0
dbaud=9600
volume=20
sgilogo=y
autopower=y
rebound=n
netaddr=10.0.0.15
eaddr=08:00:69:09:93:78
ConsoleOut=serial(0)
ConsoleIn=serial(0)
cpufreq=150


 - Hubert

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