Subject: Re: Problems with booting up in general
To: Greywolf <greywolf@starwolf.com>
From: Brett Lymn <blymn@baesystems.com.au>
List: port-sparc
Date: 03/16/2003 21:42:32
On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 11:59:02AM -0800, Greywolf wrote:
>
> I seem to remember it needing
>
> boot sd(0,8,0) netbsd
>
> i.e. controller 0 lun 8 (target 1, lun 0) partition 0.
>
I suspect that is either faulty memory on your part or a bug.
> even though in practice we
> *KNOW* nothing really uses multiple luns anymore,
Nope - wrong there. Most SCSI RAID controllers will use the luns to
address the raid groups set up on them.
> the middle parameter
> is specified as (target * 8) + lun -- in hex, no less. Yes,
> that means that booting from target 1 lun 4 would be
>
> boot sd(0,c,0)
I disagree. that would be
boot sd(4,1,0)
for what it is worth, the other 0 is the partition number to boot from
so you could boot from part 3 by doing:
boot sd(4,1,3)
--
Brett Lymn