Re: NetBSD Installation on Sun Ultra 25

Sad Clouds <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.sparc64
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, 29 Jul 2020 22:34:50 +0200
Connor McLaughlan <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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

OK, it probably has built-in SAS controller that also accepts SATA
drives.
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