is there an easy way to make a disk bootable on sun hardware? i took a 4g scsi disk that was not in use and dropped it in my sun box here at work. after installing debian, i couldn't boot. i thought that since i went through fdisk and deleted/re-created the partitions, that everything would work.
however, i guess there is some specific partition/formatting that must be written to the drive. as this drive was previosly in a PC, i figured it was missing that information. i searched for docs to find a way make this disk useable on the sun. after finding nothing that would help, i started installing solaris 7 as i remember it did some type of "init" to the drive. i bailed out of the install after format and re-installed slink. at that point everything was happy. is there a way (out of bios maybe) to init a new drive? i can't imagine that you would have to start installing solaris just to get a drive "ready" to install linux. is this already documented and i just missed it? thanks, - wayne --- demsg - cut here --- PROMLIB: Sun Boot Prom Version 3 Revision 2 ARCH: SUN4M TYPE: micro COMPstation II Ethernet address: 0:80:3f:f5:a:75 Found 1 CPU prom device tree node(s). IOMMU: impl 0 vers 4 page table at f0280000 of size 262144 bytes sbus0: Clock 21.1250 MHz dma0: Revision 2 dma1: Revision 2 cgsix0 at 0x50000000 TEC Rev 4 CPU sparc Rev b Console: 16 point font, 864 scans Console: colour SUN 128x54, 1 virtual console (max 63) Calibrating delay loop.. ok - 84.79 BogoMIPS Memory: 62372k available (1072k kernel code, 1780k data) [f0000000,f4000000] Swansea University Computer Society NET3.035 for Linux 2.0 NET3: Unix domain sockets 0.13 for Linux NET3.035. Swansea University Computer Society TCP/IP for NET3.034 IP Protocols: IGMP, ICMP, UDP, TCP VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_5.6.0 initialized Linux version 2.0.35 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.7.2.3) #1 Wed Feb 17 20:37:03 CET 1999 Starting kswapd v 1.4.2.2 Sparc Zilog8530 serial driver version 1.18.2.15 tty00 at 0xffeeb004 (irq = 44) is a Zilog8530 tty01 at 0xffeeb000 (irq = 44) is a Zilog8530 tty02 at 0xffee4004 (irq = 44) is a Zilog8530 tty03 at 0xffee4000 (irq = 44) is a Zilog8530 Sun TYPE 4 keyboard detected without keyclick Sun Mouse-Systems mouse driver version 1.00 Ramdisk driver initialized : 16 ramdisks of 4096K size loop: registered device at major 7 Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 md driver 0.36.3 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8 esp0: IRQ 36 SCSI ID 7 Clock 40 MHz CCF=8 Time-Out 167 NCR53C9XF(espfast) detected esp0: FAST chip is fas100a (family=0, version=2) ESP: Total of 1 ESP hosts found, 1 actually in use. scsi0 : Sparc ESP100A-FAST scsi : 1 host. Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST15230N Rev: 0298 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Vendor: TOSHIBA Model: CD-ROM XM-3501TA Rev: 3384 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0 scsi : detected 1 SCSI cdrom 1 SCSI disk total. esp0: target 0 [period 100ns offset 15 10.00MHz FAST SCSI-II] SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 8386733 [4095 MB] [4.1 GB] sunlance.c:v1.9 21/Aug/96 Miguel de Icaza ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) eth0: LANCE 00:80:3f:f5:0a:75 eth0: using auto-carrier-detection. Partition check: sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 sda5 sda6 sda7 sda8 VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. Freeing unused kernel memory: 40k code, 4k data Adding Swap: 65372k swap-space (priority -1) sunmouse: Successfully adjusted to 1200 baud. esp0: Disabling sync for buggy Toshiba CDROM. esp0: Disabling DISCONNECT for target 6 lun 0 esp0: target 6 asynchronous --- dmesg - cut here ---
