How to boot after a Freebsd 5.3 install

[Yann CUEFF]

Hi,

It works with the devalias freebsd /pci at 1f,0/pci at 1/scsi at 1/disk at 3,0:a

Thanks for your help.

Regards,

Yann, a frenchy guy

devalias freebsd
>From: "Yann CUEFF" <yanncueff at hotmail.fr>
>To: joerg_wunsch at interface-systems.de
>CC: freebsd-sparc64 at freebsd.org
>Subject: Re: How to boot after a Freebsd 5.3 install
>Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 10:09:50 +0100
>
>Hello,
>
>I've installed FreeBSD 5.3 on an external ultra scsi drive.
>To boot I use a devalias:
>
>boot freebsd
>
>where freebsd  =  /pci at 1f,0/pci at 1/scsi at 1,1/disk at 3,0:a
>
>ok probe-scsi-all
>
>/pci at 1f,0/pci at 1/scsi at 1,1
>
>/pci at 1f,0/pci at 1/scsi at 1
>Target 3
>  Unit 0   Disk   SEAGATE STXXXXXSUN18G 034 A
>
>perhaps the good devalias is
>freebsd = /pci at 1f,0/pci at 1/scsi at 1/disk at 3,0:a
>
>
>My / partition is "a"
>
>I can't test no more because i'm installing gentoo sparc on my ultra5.
>If someone could tell me what devalias i should use I will reinstall 
>freebsd and will try to boot it
>
>Regards,
>
>Yann
>
>
>>From: Joerg Wunsch <j at ida.interface-business.de>
>>Reply-To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch at interface-systems.de>
>>To: Yann CUEFF <yanncueff at hotmail.fr>
>>CC: freebsd-sparc64 at freebsd.org
>>Subject: Re: How to boot after a Freebsd 5.3 install
>>Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 18:44:08 +0100
>>
>>As Yann CUEFF wrote:
>>
>> > Nowhere like an install on i386 i've seen an item to install a boot
>> > manager.
>>
>>The Openboot PROM (OBP) is boot manager enough.
>>
>> > After exist sysinstall i tried to boot with the OBP of my ultra5
>> > workstation on the a partition and i doesn't work.
>>
>>Where did you install it?  How did you partition your disk(s)?
>>
>>If not customized, OBP tries to boot off partition `a' of the first
>>disk (IDE disk on the U5/10).
>>
>>What ``does not work''?  (IOW: what happens?)
>>--
>>J"org Wunsch                                           Unix support 
>>engineer
>>joerg_wunsch at interface-systems.de        
>>http://www.interface-systems.de/~j/
>
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