Hi,
On 1/11/19 10:05 AM, Robert Elz wrote:
>
> Try sd(0,3,0) - some Sun boot proms did some strange mapping
> between 0 and 3 (as I remember it - it has been decades) for some
> weird hysterical reason...
>
> (The 3 replaces the 0 in one of the positions...) It will still be sd0
> in NetBSD.
I remember such thing too.. I had a printed card until my SS2 worked to
print out these aliases, I think too 0 and 3 where "switched" however
not when using the "old" but the "new" settings.
I am really guessing, but I think you could type "new" and then get into
Open Firmware (as compared to old Sun3 style monitor) and then devalias
would work.
Ah, interesting thought, I'll have to experiment. I was doing all of this from "new". I hadn't thought to set up my own devalias. Of course, since I have a dead battery all of my settings will be lost if I power off.
I just checked this and it is also backwards in the old command mode, at least in ROM 1.3:
Type b (boot), c (continue), or n (new command mode)
>b sd(0,0,0)netbsd
Probing Memory Bank #: 1 2 3 4 5
Booting from: sd(0,0,0)netbsd
The selected SCSI device is not responding
Can't open boot device
Available Devices:
SCSI disk [disk-device] (sd)
Floppy Disk [disk-device] (fd)
SCSI tape [tape-device] (st)
le [network-device] (le)
Type b (boot), c (continue), or n (new command mode)
>b sd(0,3,0)netbsd
Booting from: sd(0,3,0)netbsd
>> NetBSD/sparc Secondary Boot, Revision 1.15 (Tue Jul 17 14:59:51 UTC 2018)
Booting netbsd
...
-Henry