Subject: RE: Problems with booting up in general
To: None <port-sparc@netbsd.org>
From: Andrew Obusek <obusek@UDel.Edu>
List: port-sparc
Date: 03/13/2003 22:06:17
So I tried:
ok> setenv boot-device sd(0,1,0)netbsd
ok> boot
and I got a message saying can't open device sd(0,1,0) or somethign of the
like.  And if I try simply "boot disk"  it says somethign along the lines of
sd 3,0 not responding.
Just to confirm that I'm reading the probe-scsi right it is telling me that
the hard disk is at
Target 1 Unit 0
and the cd rom (which worked fine for the installation
Target 6

Any other ideas of what could be the problem?
-andy

-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Earle [mailto:earle@isolar.DynDNS.ORG]
Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 9:55 PM
To: Andrew Obusek
Cc: port-sparc@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: Problems with booting up in general


> I was able to install netBSD onto my Sparc1+ but after the installation
I'm
> not able to boot into netBSD.  Here are a couple of the things I've tried
> 1) both boot sd(0,1,0)
> 	and boot sd()
> 	but I get a message that both of those commands are outdated.
> 2) so I try "boot disk" but for some reason it says "can't open device" at
> target sd3,0
> If I probe-scsi the hard disk I want to boot off is at scsi 1
> I think that if you "boot disk" it looks at scsi port 3.  I have the env
> argument boot-file set to netbsd.
> I apologize if this seems to ramble, but any ideas on where to go from
here?

Your EEPROM is probably too old to have the common "devalias" NVRAM device
aliases like "disk1" to boot from the disk at SCSI target id 1, etc.
Those aliases are available in newer EEPROM'ed machines.

Try "setenv boot-from sd(0,1,0)netbsd" from the "ok " prompt and see if
that works for you.

	- Greg