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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 IDE cable, |
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> and the on-board connector seems to be only a standard IDE connector, thus, |
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> my harddisk, being able to run ATA66, is only working in very slow standard |
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> IDE mode. |
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> 2. How to boot from the hdd on the card. I just learnt to use 'boot cdrom' on |
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> OBP to boot from CDROM, but yet is it possible to boot from the hdd on the |
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> card? If this is not possible, perhaps I need to prepare a boot floppy to |
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> 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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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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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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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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> Thank you for your help . |
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Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <fmccor@g.o> |
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Developer, Gentoo Linux (Sparc) |
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