[rescue] wanted: diskimage for sun3 architecture

[Walter Belgers]

Curtis H. Wilbar Jr. wrote:
> > Although NetBSD's Matt Fredette has written a ND daemon, it does only
> > support booting via ND, not mounting. (I succesfully use it to netboot
> > my Sun 2/50.)
> 
> How does the Sun 2/50 then mount partitions ?  (or were you using
> SunOS 5 on the 2/50 and using NFS to mount parittions) ?

My Sun 2/50 boots a "modern" SunOS (4.0.3) and that uses NFS to mount
partitions. SunOS 3.5 and older use ND to mount partitions.
The difference is in the boot PROM: a Sun 3 can netboot via
rarp/bootparam/tftp, whereas a Sun 2 can only boot via network disk.

> > 2) Then I tried netbooting SunOS 4.0.3. I couldn't find the correct
> > kernel between all the seperate tape image files, so I put in a SunOS
> > 4.1.3 kernel with the 4.0.3 userland. The kernel loads and probes the
> > devices, then does a NFS getattr on the swap and then hangs.
> 
> There was no SunOS 4.1.3 kernel for Sun3.  Sun stopped support for Sun3
> at SunOS 4.1.1_U1 (or was it 3x that stopped at 4.1.1_U1 and straight
> Sun3 at 4.1.1 Rev B ?).

My mistake, it's a 4.1.1 kernel.

> > 3) After this I tried soldering a harddisk in the system using the HOWTO
> > on sunstuff.org. The Sun 3/60 motherboard has places reserved to solder
> > in a SCSI connector and a power connector. The 4 wires of the power
> > connector have +5 and GND, but there's no +12V... Also not on my
> > spare-parts-Sun3/60. Weird. So this doesn't work, without +12V the disk
> > won't spin up.
> 
> possibly a fuse ?  maybe some boards didn't have everything required to
> make that work... dunno as I don't have a 3/60.

The fuse located near it was OK. Maybe there were differences in
motherboards yes.

> Your hard disk to install on should be target 3.  SunOS oddly maps
> sd0 to target 3, etc... (if you have any running SunOS system that
> hasn't beem modified look at the kernel conf file you will see the
> sd and st to id mappeings in there.... it's the same for most if not
> all SunOS 4.X releases).

Because of the sd(x,y,z) to SCSI id mapping I assumed this was not (yet)
the case in Sun3's. I'll check.

> Another thing to keep in mind... is sometimes you can't just 'plop'
> newer boot roms into a board.... sometimes there are ECOs required
> (like with the Sun 3/80 going to 3.03 ROMs).

What's an ECO?

Walter.
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