* Booting a Sparcstation from disk
@ 1995-07-19 16:46 dhog
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From: dhog @ 1995-07-19 16:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
[Apologies if you've already seen this]
I've got my SLC booting from disk. The command ss/home will set up
a new boot disk (takes about 24 mins). Caveats:
- boot disk must be scsi id 3 for the ROM monitor to boot from it
- disk probably needs to have been formatted by sunos/solaris, which stores
a lot of pointless information + a checksum in sector 0, which I have been
leaving alone. If this becomes a problem, I can probably provide a "blank"
sector 0 (there's a magic number, so it can't just be all zeros)
- only V1 of the ROM monitor is supported. The ELC's are V2. I will
probably fix this at a later date. Apparently a V0 exists also...
P.S. You really don't want to know how it works! ;-)
P.P.S. Danger! The other "home" scripts are unaware that the interface to
disk/prep has changed...
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