Need help booting Sun 3/160 from SCSI disk

DOUG O'NEAL DOUG at jhuvms.hcf.jhu.edu
Sun Dec 9 09:07:00 AEST 1990


I am just now starting to manage a Sun 3/160 and am having some problems.
We just got a SCSI disk (equivalent to a a SUN0669) and we want to change
the boot device from xy0 (Fujitsu-M2333) to sd0.  I did the following:

1) dump 0f - /dev/xy0a | (mount /dev/sd0a /mnt; cd /mnt; restore -r -)
2) cd /usr/mdec; installboot -vlt /boot bootsd /dev/sd0a
3) sync; sync; shutdown -h now
4) b sd() -s

The response from the boot command is a SCSI device timeout.  I can boot
from xy() with the -a flag and place the root partition on sd0a with no
problems.  Is it possible to have the SCSI disk as the boot device?  If
so, what am I doing wrong?

Thanks in advance,

Doug O'Neal, Distributed Systems Programmer, Johns Hopkins University
doug at jhuvms.bitnet, doug at jhuvms.hcf.jhu.edu, mimsy!aplcen!jhunix!doug



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