Subject: Re: Problems with booting up in general
To: Andrew Obusek <obusek@UDel.Edu>
From: Greg Earle <earle@isolar.DynDNS.ORG>
List: port-sparc
Date: 03/13/2003 18:55:19
> I was able to install netBSD onto my Sparc1+ but after the installation I'm
> not able to boot into netBSD.  Here are a couple of the things I've tried
> 1) both boot sd(0,1,0)
> 	and boot sd()
> 	but I get a message that both of those commands are outdated.
> 2) so I try "boot disk" but for some reason it says "can't open device" at
> target sd3,0
> If I probe-scsi the hard disk I want to boot off is at scsi 1
> I think that if you "boot disk" it looks at scsi port 3.  I have the env
> argument boot-file set to netbsd.
> I apologize if this seems to ramble, but any ideas on where to go from here?

Your EEPROM is probably too old to have the common "devalias" NVRAM device
aliases like "disk1" to boot from the disk at SCSI target id 1, etc.
Those aliases are available in newer EEPROM'ed machines.

Try "setenv boot-from sd(0,1,0)netbsd" from the "ok " prompt and see if
that works for you.

	- Greg