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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