Sparc Help

[George Toft]

Hi Don,

Did that.  I've also tried changing the drive jumpers, and when it
tries to boot, it tells me there is no drive.  If I change it back,
it tries to load, but hangs.

George


Don Harrop wrote:
> 
> at the ok prompt enter "printenv boot-device" and verify the disk it's pointing to is the boot disk..
> 
> Don
> 
> ---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
> From: George Toft <george@georgetoft.com>
> Reply-To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 23:18:31 -0700
> 
> >I have a Sparc2 with Red Hat 5.2 installed.  The hard drive is correctly
> identified if I type "probe-scsi" at the prom ok prompt, but it hangs
> when I try to boot from the drive.
> 
> I suspect a bad drive.  It spins up, prom identifies it, but the Red
> Hat installer won't read from it.  I've set the jumper for termination,
> and that did nothing.
> 
> I'm pretty scsi stupid (and sparc stupid), so I'm looking for some
> hints here.  The box was a freebie, so I'm not complaining too much.
> The drive is a Micropolis 4421AV, which is fast scsi-2 narrow.  Can
> I replace it with any fast scsi-2 50 pin drive and expect it to work?
> 
> Thanks in advance for your help.
> 
> George
> 
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