Re: NetBSD Installation on Sun Ultra 25

On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 10:34 PM Connor McLaughlan <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 8:46 AM Sad Clouds <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 29 Jul 2020 00:25:08 +0200
> > Connor McLaughlan <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > ok boot disk
> > > Boot device: /pci@1e,600000/pci@0/pci@9/pci@0/scsi@1/disk@0,0   File
> > > and args:
> >
> > Are you sure you're booting from the correct disk? You mentioned
> > installing NetBSD on SATA drive, but you seem to be booting from a SCSI
> > disk. I've never used Sun Ultra 25, but with Ultra 10 (and other Sun
> > machines) I had to change the default boot device to either IDE or SCSI
> > in openboot. There are probe-ide and probe-scsi commands which scan all
> > disks, may be different on your machine, not sure.
>
> I think this is a specialty in this case, since it is SATA and not IDE.
>
> The SATA disk gets listed by probe-scsi-all:
>
> ok probe-scsi-all
> /pci@1e,600000/pci@0/pci@9/pci@0/scsi@1
>
> MPT Version 1.05, Firmware Version 1.08.03.00
>
> Target 0
> Unit 0 Disk ATA ST3360320AS M 703282608 Blocks, 360 GB SATA device PhyNum 0
>
> So boot via disk and /pci@1e,600000/pci@0/pci@9/pci@0/scsi@1/disk@0,0
> should be ok.
>
> I will try different partition sizes and drives now.
>
> Regards,
> Connor

Alright, it seems to be a disk size problem. Didn't expect this.
If i create a root partition of 80GB on this drive, it boots and works.

The machine was apparently sold with a 250GB drives as a maximum size.
So my question is: can i only use the disk up to 250GB or can i create
a boot partition of 80GB, swap of 8GB and use the space beyond in a
third partition?

OBP version is 4.25.9.

Regards,
Connor