Subject: Re: Sparc 10 new disk prblm....
To: Hezekiah Mcmurray <hez@mayo.caltech.edu>
From: Dave McGuire <mcguire@neurotica.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 05/15/2000 19:00:06
On May 15, Hezekiah Mcmurray wrote:
> Have a new 9+ gb Hard drive (Seagate Barracuda).....
> 
> I have successfully used a boot floppy (1.4.2) to do the necessary
> fsck/newfs/sysinst stuff - alll successful.
> 
> During reboot - the machine attempts to boot net.
> After changing this is in the env and just typing boot disk at the ok
> prompt - the machine still tries to boot over the net.
> 
> Typing boot disk0 get's me a "can't open device" error.
> 
> Probe-scsi sees the disk the way it should .....

  You type "boot disk0"...is your new drive on ID 3, which would be
just "boot disk"?  Remember the unit3<->unit0 swapping madness...

         -Dave McGuire