Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 23:34:01 -0700 From: "Joshua Pincus" <joshua.pincus@gmail.com> To: "K Chapman" <tech2187@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Getting 6.1 Sparc64 onto a Netra X1 Message-ID: <bc915a050608312334h5a4676e7xaf2a01901e980d41@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20060901045553.53338.qmail@web51006.mail.yahoo.com> References: <bc915a050608311301j1eb30de7n5b94a7a26732f600@mail.gmail.com> <20060901045553.53338.qmail@web51006.mail.yahoo.com>
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Yes. It does. JP -- On 8/31/06, K Chapman <tech2187@yahoo.com> wrote: > 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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