From owner-freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 3 17:16:36 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40DBF16A4CE for ; Wed, 3 Dec 2003 17:16:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp4.server.rpi.edu (smtp4.server.rpi.edu [128.113.2.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6525843F3F for ; Wed, 3 Dec 2003 17:16:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by smtp4.server.rpi.edu (8.12.10/8.12.9) with ESMTP id hB41GXtp005351 for ; Wed, 3 Dec 2003 20:16:33 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20031203154426.I69957@carver.gumbysoft.com> References: <20031203154426.I69957@carver.gumbysoft.com> Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 20:16:32 -0500 To: sparc64@FreeBSD.ORG From: Garance A Drosihn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . canit . ca) Subject: Re: Booting from alternate disk in sparc64 X-BeenThere: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Sparc List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 01:16:36 -0000 At 3:50 PM -0800 12/3/03, Doug White wrote: >On Tue, 2 Dec 2003, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > > I now have two drives in my Ultra-10, and wanted to boot off >> the second drive. I got to the open-firmware prompt. Typing > > "boot disk0" boots up off the first disk, with the messages: > >The OpenFirmware (or openprom) boot command just boots loader. >Loader actually loads the kernel. They can load from different >locations, as you found. Normally in FreeBSD, you will not be >changing things from OFW, unless you want to boot off a CD. >If you are just booting a kernel from another disk, you can >just repoint loader using currdev. Just to be complete, I should mention that what I had done was taken the one disk that had been the only disk, moved that to be the slave disk and added a new disk as the master ATA disk. I then installed 5.1 onto the new "disk0". So I know the "new disk1" used to work as the old disk0, but it is true that the disk was built and had always run as disk0 before I added the second disk to the machine. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu