SUMMARY: Solaris 2.5 on Sparc 1 install problem - OpenBoot problem?

From: Julyan Cartwright (julyan@hp1.uib.es)
Date: Tue Apr 09 1996 - 10:27:14 CDT


I asked:
>
>I am trying to set up a Sparc 1 will Solaris 2.5. I have run the install
>program from CDROM, and got to the stage of having to reboot, when instead
>of coming up the machine tells me 'The selected SCSI device is not responding'
>then 'Can't open SCSI device'. The 'boot-from' flag in the prom is set
>to sd(0,0,0), and I have checked that this is where the root partition
>(slice..) resides, by booting from CDROM and mounting /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0,
>which works fine.
>So what's going on? I had this machine working with 2.5 on it a while
>ago. Since then I swapped disks and in the process changed the SCSI address
>of the boot disk from target 1 to target 0. I'm beginning to suspect that

Thanks to
negativl@netcom.com (Raymond Wong)
Kevin.Sheehan@uniq.com.au (Kevin Sheehan {Consulting Poster Child})
sweh@mpn.com (Stephen Harris)
"Scott L. Sherrill" <slsherri@mtu.edu>
zaitcev@lab.ipmce.su (Pete A. Zaitcev)
Asim Zuberi <asim@psa.pencom.com>
for replying.

The problem was I had forgotten that /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 corresponds to
sd(0,3,0), not sd(0,0,0), because of a curious remapping of the target ids
(anyone have any idea why Sun did this?). Anyhow, my machine boots fine
from sd(0,3,0)...
        Julyan

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