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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