Subject: Re: Booting from something other than sd0
To: Reginald J. Reed <rjr@gomab.racal.com>
From: Mauricio Tavares <raub@kushana.aero.ufl.edu>
List: port-sun3
Date: 01/22/1996 12:57:33
While shopping for shruberries, Reginald J. Reed pondered:
>
> I have two drives (sd0, in an old Sun shoebox and sd4, an old CDC
> *-161). I have a 1.0A system on sd0 and the bare minimum of a 1.1 system
> on sd4. When I booted from sd4, the kernal loaded fine and then it used
> the root and swap from sd0. I'm sure its something simple I need to
> configure, but I have no idea what to "set." HELP!
>
From Peter Koch's "SunOS Install Media"
<http://doener.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/install/install.html>:
Machine Version Comment
3/50 1.3 can only boot from sd0 and QIC-24
3/50 2.6 can boot from any disk and QIC-150
3/60 1.6 can only boot from sd0 and QIC-24
3/60 2.8 can boot from any disk and QIC-150
3/60 3.01 can't boot from QIC-150 but from cdrom
3/60 3.02 can boot from QIC-150 and cdrom
3/260 2.0 can't boot from QIC-150 and cdrom
3/470 3.0 can boot from QIC-150 and cdrom
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