[rescue] E420R Booting Issues

[Bryan Gurney]

On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 09:33:09 -0500, Mike Parson <mparson at bl.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 10:12:20PM -0400, Bryan Gurney wrote:
>> On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 08:39:54 -0400, William Enestvedt
>> <William.Enestvedt at jwu.edu>wrote:
>>
>>> Check the SCSI ID for the CD-ROM (which is a DVD-ROM on those,
>>> right?).  I think that the device path to the devalias "cdrom" will
>>> beak if the drive's SCSI ID has changed.
>>>    Or perhaps I merely shifted in my chair and am talking out my ***.
>>> :7)
>>> -wde
>>
>> On all the Sparc / Ultrasparcs I've worked on, the CD-ROM drive was set  
>> as
>> 6.  That's where openboot tries to boot from by default when you issue  
>> the
>> "boot cdrom" command.
>
> On all Sparc/UltraSparc systems with SCSI CD-ROMs, it should be set to
> ID 6, that is where the PROM's devalias is pointing the cdrom alias to
> by default.
>
> Haven't worked on enough IDE based units to remember where they expect
> the cdrom to be off the top of my head.
>


Judging from the dead GoldStar drive from my Ultra 5, the master on the  
secondary channel.