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Date:      Mon, 22 Mar 2004 05:11:16 +0000
From:      Mark Campbell <mark@redbrick.dcu.ie>
To:        Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU>, freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Openboot device path.
Message-ID:  <20040322051116.GA7038@carbon.redbrick.dcu.ie>
In-Reply-To: <20040322034417.GB2866@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU>
References:  <20040322032707.GA3957@carbon.redbrick.dcu.ie> <20040322034417.GB2866@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU>

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On Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 10:44:17PM -0500, Ken Smith stated: 
> 
> Try just "boot disk" and see if that does the right thing.  If the
> Openboot firmware isn't horribly messed up that should know which
> device the hard disk is.

I tired this, it tried to boot off

/pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3/disk@0

HOwever it simply reports, 

"No boot record found"

I'm thinking two things

* Openboot is trying to boot off the wrong disk; is there any way to list the
  devices on the system so I can try them manually, or even better which ones
  I can boot from.

* Even though I followed all the steps from sysinstall, it's possible that a
  boot sector (MBR in intel world), however unlike the normal sysinstall I
  wasn't prompted to install a loader after the disk partitioning table.

If I can prove any extra information, please don't hesitate to ask,

Thanks for your time and troubles.

-- 
regards,
	-mark
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Mark Campbell <mark_campbell@redbrick.dcu.ie> 
http://mark.redbrick.dcu.ie           
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"Trying is the first step towards Failure"- Homer J. Simpson   



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