[SunRescue] Booting a Sun3

James W. Birdsall jwbirdsa at picarefy.picarefy.com
Sun Aug 29 18:41:18 CDT 1999


   You probably got this working a while ago (I'm running way behind on my
mail), but here's some thoughts:

   1) Sun-3's will not boot from a disk that has SCSI parity turned on.
   2) Sun-3's don't have the 3/0 SCSI ID inversion that SPARCs do. When you
tell a Sun-3 to boot from the disk with SCSI ID 0, it really does, instead of
remapping it to SCSI ID 3.
   3) I would think that dd'ing the miniroot onto the disk via another
machine would work, but I don't know enough about the mechanics of
bootblocks and such to be sure.

   --James






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