Subject: Re: VS3100 + RZ57 SCSI disk - more questions...
To: Ole Myren R|hne <o.m.rohne@fys.uio.no>
From: Oscar Oberg <Oscar.Oberg@abc.se>
List: port-vax
Date: 06/04/1997 09:57:09
On Sat, 31 May 1997, Ole Myren R|hne wrote:

> I understand that it is not possible to boot directly off a SCSI
> disk. But would it be possible boot with mop and then use the
> bootparams to tell her to load the kernel, mount root and swap all
> from the SCSI disk?

Don't think so, but if you compile a kernel w/:

root on sd0a swap on sd0b

it'll load the kernel by NFS and then mount root on the disk. The boot
program doesn't seem to be able to load the kernel from SCSI disks yet
from what I've understood/tested.

Oscar