Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 21:55:53 -0700 (PDT) From: K Chapman <tech2187@yahoo.com> To: Joshua Pincus <joshua.pincus@gmail.com>, Christopher Martin <chris.m.maillists@ebit.com.au> Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Getting 6.1 Sparc64 onto a Netra X1 Message-ID: <20060901045553.53338.qmail@web51006.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <bc915a050608311301j1eb30de7n5b94a7a26732f600@mail.gmail.com>
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Joshua Pincus <joshua.pincus@gmail.com> wrote: Hi, I had similar problems on a Sun Fire V210. The problem is that your cdrom device alias is wrong, hence OBP can't open the device. On the Sun Fire V210, I figured out which bus the CD-ROM was connected to through trial and error using a SCSI disk that I would plug into different bus slots and try to boot. Eventually, I figured out the right bus and created a device alias for cdrom: devalias cdrom /pci@1c,600000/scsi@2,1/disk@6,0:f (This is a printout of the entry from my nvramrc.) You don't need the devalias to boot the system. You just need the complete path, like the one following the "cdrom" term as above. Remember, the CD-ROM is nothing more than a read-only hard drive. In this case, I was able to boot by sticking the CD-ROM at SCSI device location 6 and booting from the same :f partition as you'd expect. Coincidentally, I took the hard drive with FreeBSD on it and removed it from the V210. I placed it in my own Netra X1 and have been running FreeBSD ever since! does the probe-scsi-all (probe-ide for come models) obp command not work on netras? --------------------------------- How low will we go? Check out Yahoo! Messenger’s low PC-to-Phone call rates.
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