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- From: rich@Rice.edu (Richard Murphey)
- Subject: Re: [386BSD] SCSI Bootstrap Method?
- In-Reply-To: mark@student.business.uwo.ca's message of Mon, 16 Nov 1992 14:13:23 GMT
- Message-ID: <RICH.92Nov16115857@omicron.Rice.edu>
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- Organization: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice
- University
- References: <1992Nov16.060831.24807@nas.nasa.gov>
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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 17:58:57 GMT
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- In article <1c6BuB4w165w@student.business.uwo.ca> mark@student.business.uwo.ca (Mark Bramwell CS STAFF) writes:
- tweten@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Dave Tweten) writes:
-
- > I need to find out how to bootstrap 386bsd, given a machine which only
- > has a SCSI hard disk. When Julian Elischer posted his SCSI driver
- > code, I thought I had it made, but I haven't been able to get past the
- > need for a SCSI capable bootable filesystem diskette. I've searched
- > agate.berkeley.edu and ref.tfs.com, and haven't found a suitable *.fs
- > file on either. I need help!
-
-
- I have 386bsd running with no problems as far as booting is concerned.
-
- I am running an adaptec 1542 with a 1.2gig fujitsui scsi drive.
- I set the cmos drive to 0 'no drives' and let the scsi board boot the
- machine. All seems to be ok. I am running the stock kernel.
-
-
- Enabling the scsi adapter's bios also has beneficial effects even if
- you don't boot from the scsi drive.
-
- I've got an identical setup -- adaptec 1542 with a 1.2gig fujitsui
- scsi drive -- but boot from an ide. The bios on the adaptec 1542B
- seems to initialze the drive into a state which prevents error which
- occur otherwise when cold booting. Rich
-