Subject: Re: booting u5 after install
To: None <ddzehr@vertiginous.net, port-sparc64@netbsd.org>
From: None <eeh@netbsd.org>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 06/04/2002 14:28:35
| I have a Sun ultra5 that I wanted to run NetBSD on, when not using it
| for work.  Its an IDE based model.  I put a new 10GB hard drive in it, 
| (one that had been used in a PC for awhile).  I net booted it off of 
| another netbsd box I have (sparc 5 clone running 1.5.2).  I used the
| 2002511-1.5ZC snapshot packages, the install ran fine, partitioned the
| disk, everything installed, (/dev/wd0*).  All happy.
|
| When I reboot, it can't find a bootable disk, I try specifying a disk 
| "boot disk", "boot disk:a", "boot disk1:a", etc, and it doesn't find
| anything.  I've re-netbooted, and mounted the partitions, and re-run
| installboot but that doesn't seem to fix it.
|
| Any suggestions?  I've never put netbsd on a non-scsi system before
| (always used scsi even on my pc), is there something special I need to
| do to make it bootable?  Any special PROM settings, etc?  If someone
| needs more details, I'll supply them.

Did you remember to install a bootblock and put ofwboot in the root?

Eduardo