Re: Alpha and Sparc problems

[raphael@research.canon.com.au (Andrew Raphael)]

"Napalm" <napalm@tampabay.rr.com> writes:

You should, of course, include a dmesg with your problem so we can
see your hardware configuration.  This is your first and last
warning.    ;-)

>Sparc:
>The system comes up and is (local,read-only). I type "mount" and get
>"root-device on / type ffs (local,read-only). I also "cat /etc/fstab" and
>have "/dev/sd0a / ffs rw 1 1". I have tried to "mount -uw /" and recv'd
>"mount_ffs: /dev/sd0a on /: specified device does not match mounted device".
>Any ideas as what to change or to fix?

I'm guessing that your boot-device is not the disk with the lowest
SCSI id on the SCSI bus.  OpenBSD numbers the disks so that sd0 is
the lowest SCSI id, sd1 is the next lowest, and so on.  Your SS4
is probably booting off the disk with SCSI id 3 and the OpenBoot
devalias disk because that's how SunOS used to do it.  I suggest
you pull out all your disks and re-assign their SCSI ids starting
at 1 and counting up.  Then change your OpenBoot boot-device to
disk1 and try booting again.

Regards,

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