On Wed, Feb 25, 1998 at 12:09:30PM -0500, Mason Loring Bliss wrote:
> Hi, all.
> 
> I'm curious if there's anything special to be done to get a SCSI drive to
> be bootable. A friend of mine bought a Jaz SCSI controller, and we popped
> it into his system. After fiddling around a bit (and discovering that Plug-
> and-Play being enabled on the SCSI controller ended up resetting the SCSI
> bus is a bad sort of way) we got things so that NetBSD could see the SCSI
> drive he had. We did a full install, using a boot floppy and an EtherNet,
> and things proceeded smoothly. However, when the system boots, it whirrs
> and buzzes a bit, as normal, and then tells us there there's no operating
> system to be had.
> 
> If, however, we pop in the NetBSD install floppy to boot, but instead of
> booting from the floppy, tell it "boot sd0a:netbsd", it boots from the
> hard disk without any problems.
> 
> This makes it seem like the boot blocks on the SCSI drive aren't set up
> properly. I'm new enough to the i386 port that I don't really know how to
> proceed here.
> 

Yeah, check out /usr/mdec/installboot (and the corresponding man page).

> PS: Another quick question... Is there an easy way I can duplicate my boot
> floppy? I don't have a DOS system easily available for use with rawrite, and
> I'm not sure how to do it under NetBSD. (I can mount and unmount stuff, and
> use tar with the floppy drive, but I've got no clue how to work with disk
> images.)
> 

See above.  :)
# /usr/mdec/installboot -f /usr/mdec/biosboot.sym /dev/rfd0a

Scott

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