FreeBSD 5.3 for SPARC64 does not find SCSI disks on Unltra 1E

David O'Brien obrien at freebsd.org
Mon Nov 22 02:18:46 GMT 2004


On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 05:50:19PM -0800, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> >>On Nov 18, 2004, at 5:37 PM, John Du wrote:
> >Thanks Marcel.  No, the kernel does not see the disk. I dropped to the 
> >command line and typed "lsdev".  The command lists nothing under block 
> >devices.
> 
> lsdev is a loader command. It may not tell you what you need to know. In
> particular it won't tell you if the kernel will detect the SCSI disks.
> It's probably a good idea to use a serial console, boot the kernel with
> -v and send us the boot log.

And do a 'probe scsi-all' at the OBP prompt before booting.
If you have have auto-boot? = TRUE; then lay on the ^C key and issue the
proble command.  Then, "boot" or 'boot net' or 'boot disk'.

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-- David  (obrien at FreeBSD.org)


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