Re: General question on boot

"Tom 'spot' Callaway" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.aurora.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 16:26, Dr. Ing. Dieter Jurzitza wrote:

> Does anyone out there have a clue how to make the system recognize the
> controller even though it is sitting in a pci slot and is not known by some
> sparc compatible bios that could be used?

Not without adding an internal (or an external) disk on the openboot
recognized controller to boot from. OpenBoot can't boot a device it
doesn't see.

~spot
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