Subject: Re: Problems booting: no file system for sd0
To: Hisashi T Fujinaka <htodd@twofifty.com>
From: Eduardo Horvath <eeh@NetBSD.org>
List: port-sparc
Date: 06/10/2004 17:14:36
On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 05:17:45PM -0700, Hisashi T Fujinaka wrote:

> So, I guess I should have been more clear in my question:
> 
> The primary boot blocks appear to be found, and somewhere it thinks that
> the the bootpath uses device /dev/sd0h rather than /dev/sd0a (if that's
> what the trailing letter means in:
> bootpath:/iommu/sbus/espdma/esp/sd@3,0:h). I couldn't figure it out
> looking at the install docs for sparc NetBSD-1.6, man 8 disklabel,
> man 8 mbrlabel, and man 8 installboot.
> 
> Is there some way to change the "h" to "a"?

I presume you want to change the bootpath, not your disk layout?

You can:

setenv boot-device /iommu/sbus/espdma/esp/sd@3,0:a

Or, if the boot-device is set to, say, "disk3" you can:

nvalias disk3 /iommu/sbus/espdma/esp/sd@3,0:a

Eduardo