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Ferris McCormick wrote: |
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> On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, Zhang Weiwu wrote: |
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> >> Hello. I (by surprise) find that my Ultra 5 uses a standard 40-pin |
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> IDE cable, and the on-board connector seems to be only a standard IDE |
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> connector, thus, my harddisk, being able to run ATA66, is only working |
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> in very slow standard IDE mode. |
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> >> 2. How to boot from the hdd on the card. I just learnt to use 'boot |
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> cdrom' on OBP to boot from CDROM, but yet is it possible to boot from |
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> the hdd on the card? If this is not possible, perhaps I need to |
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> prepare a boot floppy to bring up the OS (on hdd)? |
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> This one I can sort of answer. The following process has worked for me |
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> on a U10 with an external drive: |
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Okay, I overcome the first problem by installing gentoo from an existing |
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hdd gentoo installation. I borrowed my friends' hdd for it. |
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> 1. At the 'ok' prompt, type in the command-- show-disks |
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> 2. It will show the disks and ask you to select the one you want. |
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> Select the external drive (They are labeled a, b, c, etc. You should |
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> see a & b; pick the one corresponding to your external drive. If it's |
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> not obvious from the disk name, by using brute force you can do this |
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> twice, once with the external drive on and once not.) |
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> 3. boot ^Y (Ctrl-Y), or 'devalias gentoo ^Y' and then 'boot gentoo' |
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Err. None of a, b, c could boot. I feel a bit wired, a) is cdrom, b) is |
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ide@3/disk but the hdd on IDE card should be ide5 (count from 1) or ide4 |
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(count from 0) |
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> If this doesn't appeal, you can wait for someone who actually knows the |
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> easiest way to do this on a U5 & then do that. |
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> At some point, you probably want to go to |
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> http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/coll/216.1 |
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> and grab some OpenBoot documentation. |
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> Somewhere on Sun's site is the answer to your exact question, but I |
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> haven't any idea where, anymore. |
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Is it possible at all to put the boot loader onto floppy like some |
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people did for their x86 box? I see the kernel is pretty big (3.6MB), |
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but squezze down it seems could reach 1.44MB. |
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> Something else you can do is go to the #gentoo-sparc FreeNode IRC |
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> channel and ask around there. |
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Yes, good idea:) In China Xiamen irc is blocked ;( |
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