Re: Booting DS5000/240 from CDROM

Gordon Zaft <[email protected]> Thu, 1 Dec 2016 22:08:22 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.pmax
Message-ID <CAGuhNT2bWvxVkFjRLH=yY6kmft4pGFoKCz_d3b-r-0vT6jEe0w@mail.gmail.com>
I could try that but I don't have it set up currently.  I might try
dd'ing to a spare drive.

On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 10:26 PM, Alastair Boyanich <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On my sun micro dvd drive (pioneer?) mine won't boot without the sector set
> to 512bytes.
>
> What about a netboot off mop or tftpd?
>
> Al Boyanich
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Maciej W. Rozycki <[email protected]>
> To: Gordon Zaft <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> Sent: Sunday, 13 November 2016, 22:26
> Subject: Re: Booting DS5000/240 from CDROM
>
> On Sat, 12 Nov 2016, Gordon Zaft wrote:
>
>
>> Okay it is now seeing my HDD.  When I do a boot 3/rz6/netbsd  I get ?IO:
>> 3/rz6/netbsd (bb rd) .  So I'm thinking either it doesn't like the CDROM
>> drive or the actual CD...
>
>
> Did you set the block size to 512B on the drive?  There's usually a pin
> header position to switch between 2kB and 512B blocks with a jumper, along
> with termination, device ID, etc. settings, usually located next to the
> SCSI connector.  If there's no such setting available on the pin header,
> then you'll need to find another drive I'm afraid.
>
> HTH,
>
>   Maciej
>
>
>



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