You might have to disable parity on the SCSI disk to get it to boot.

At 08:12 AM 7/31/01 -0700, schaecsn wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I have a sun 3/50. I cannot boot from (external) scsi drives. here is a
>sample session.
>
>> b sd(0,0,0)
>scsi select failed
>Device not found
>>
>
>I have previously installed a diskless setup, e.g. I can boot from
>le(0,0,0).
>
>I have disklabeled the disk and created a filesystem => the disk works!
>
>>From the diskless setup I have dd-ed the miniroot to sd0b. I cannot boot
>that ( b sd(0,0,1) ). Then I have copied all netbsd files from my
>diskless setup onto the harddrive and adapted fstab (sd0a for root and
>sd0d for usr). with "./installboot -v /ufsboot bootxx /dev/rsd0a" I have
>made sd0a bootable but I cannot boot sd0a, either (see above).
>
>
>actually, with
>
>> x
>> si
>
>one can test the scsi interface. the "scsi bus external loopback test"
>fails
>with
>SCSI loopback error: SIGNALS Ack <and so forth>: exp F0, obs 0
>SCSI loopback error: SIGNALS Ack <and so forth>: exp F, obs 0
>
>hmm, should that bother me?
>
>any suggestion?
>
>thanks
> Stefan
>
>

Michael Thompson
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