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Ferris McCormick <fmccor@g.o>
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Keith M Wesolowski <wesolows@...>
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Re: a question regarding using promise PDC 20262 ide card on Ultra 5 as boot device
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Tue, 30 Nov 2004 13:24:24 -0800
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On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 09:20:57PM +0000, Ferris McCormick wrote:
> What's c? ide@3/disk looks exactly right for the internal drive. (I
> suppose c is the floppy?)
> And, instead of 'show-disks' you can use 'show-devs' and see everything.
> Then you will see what's on your external card if the system can see it.
> (It should be another ide@?/disk, I would think.)
The problem here is that the add-on card was made for PCs not for
Sun/Apple gear and therefore does not have OBP firmware on it. Cards
without such firmware cannot be used for booting.
> Perhaps a solution is for you during the install to put the /boot
> partition onto the internal drive and install the boot loader there.
> (This should work fine unless you need to preserve it.)
> Then put / onto the external drive, and follow the installation
> guide for setting up the configuration.
This would work.
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Keith M Wesolowski
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