RE: [suse-sparc] Boot trouble SILO, PROM??

From: Schaefer, Robert (PS) (Robert.Schaefer@ps.bellhowell.com)
Date: Tue Mar 05 2002 - 05:08:58 PST

  • Next message: Hamans, B.C.: "RE: [suse-sparc] Boot trouble SILO, PROM??"

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    From: "Schaefer, Robert (PS)" <Robert.Schaefer@ps.bellhowell.com>
    Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 08:08:58 -0500 
    Subject: RE: [suse-sparc] Boot trouble SILO, PROM??
    

    Okay, I'll chime in with the dumb question, what's the SCSI ID of the drive
    in question? (It should be 3)

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    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: Hamans, B.C. [mailto:B.C.Hamans@student.tue.nl]
    > Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 8:05 AM
    > To: 'suse-sparc@suse.com'
    > Subject: RE: [suse-sparc] Boot trouble SILO, PROM??
    >
    >
    > I think i did set a sun disklabel because setup failed the
    > first time when i
    > did not have one. I used solaris to fdisk and then removed
    > the partitions
    > with yast during setup (I did NOT delete the following
    > partitions: '/dev/sda
    > Quantum' and '/dev/sda3 Whole disk' when setting up. How do
    > i check if the
    > disk has a disk label? Can i set it without formatting and
    > thus needing to
    > do the whole setup again?
    >
    > When i type 'boot disk' this is displayed:
    > ==
    > Boot device: /iommu/sbus/espdma@5,8400000/esp@5,8800000/sd@3,0
    >
    > Can't open boot device
    > ==
    >
    > Bob
    >

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