Subject: Re: Sparc 10 new disk prblm....
To: Dave McGuire <mcguire@neurotica.com>
From: Hezekiah Mcmurray <hez@mayo.caltech.edu>
List: port-sparc
Date: 05/15/2000 17:08:52
If I type boot0 or boot3 I get the can't open devie thingo --

not really familiar with the unti3<->unti0 swapping madness (????)...

H


Hezekiah McMurray
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
California Institute of Technology
(626)395-6052
hez@caltech.edu

Always remember - if you would have used Pine - none of this would be
happening right now.

On Mon, 15 May 2000, Dave McGuire wrote:

> 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
>