Subject: Re: Problems with booting up in general
To: Brett Lymn <blymn@baesystems.com.au>
From: Greywolf <greywolf@starwolf.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 03/16/2003 10:29:54
Thus spake Brett Lymn ("BL> ") sometime Today...

BL> I suspect that is either faulty memory on your part or a bug.

Now, that would be just plain odd, considering that the "old" boot
syntax was

	boot sd(controller, targ/lun, partition)
	boot st(controller, targ/lun, fileno)

BL> > even though in practice we
BL> > *KNOW* nothing really uses multiple luns anymore,
BL>
BL> Nope - wrong there.  Most SCSI RAID controllers will use the luns to
BL> address the raid groups set up on them.

Someone else wrote something similar to me; I sat corrected and enlightened
at that point, just as I do now.  Thank you for the correction.

BL> > the middle parameter
BL> > is specified as (target * 8) + lun -- in hex, no less.  Yes,
BL> > that means that booting from target 1 lun 4 would be
BL> >
BL> > boot sd(0,c,0)
BL>
BL> I disagree.  that would be
BL>
BL> boot sd(4,1,0)
BL>
BL> for what it is worth, the other 0 is the partition number to boot from
BL> so you could boot from part 3 by doing:

See above.

Anyone else care to comment on this, or have I lost my mind?

				--*greywolf;
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NetBSD, stupid.