Re: Trouble booting

On June 22, 2005 03:39 am, you wrote:

> Of course, the really annoying part is, I'm not sure whether it's not
> finding the system because it doesn't grok the card or because I
> botched putting it on the disk.  I seem to remember using some LIF
> tools, which might be able to help, but I can't find them now - perhaps
> my memory has bitrotted and I didn't use them, or not under NetBSD.

What brand of hard drive are you using?

The HP425 boot ROM had a bug whereby it insisted on a certain SCSI timeout at 
a certain point in the boot process.  The upshot was that these things booted 
fine off of the supplied Rodime hard drives, but would not boot off anything 
faster, such as a Quantum.

Long ago I submitted a patch to the SCSI driver to fix this problem for NetBSD 
post-boot.  i.e. you still had to boot from the Rodime, but once the NetBSD 
driver came up, you could then access an attached Quantum.