Re: OF & adaptec2940UW on 7200

On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 06:03:43PM +0200, Andreas Tobler wrote:

[snip]

Now I think I miss the /sd and /st entries behind the /ADPT entry. I
followed the parts of the yaboot-faq, to find out about disk naming
under OF.
I set the boot-device like this: /bandit@F2000000/ADPT,2940UW@E/@2 for
the second disk.
On boot cmd it only says can't open the above.

have you tried /bandit@F2000000/ADPT,2940UW@E/@2:0 <-- notice the :0

you need to specify that partition number to quik, quik uses partition
0 to indicate that it should use the parititon marked bootable in the
partition table.  i think you could specify the root partition here as
well but im not sure of that.

Are there some people having a similar card/experience?
Also, creating alias'es under this OF doesn't seem to work. (OF-1.0.5)
0 > nvalias sd /bandit@F2000000/ADPT,2940UW@E  ok
0 > nvstore NVRAMRC not valid

dev aliases are only tested on newworld hardware (imacs, blue G3, g4s
etc) its not guarenteed to work on older OF.  (and it seems it does
not)  it could just be a different command too hard to say. 

let me know if your kernel (if 2.2.15) boots ;-)  

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

Ethan Benson wrote:

have you tried /bandit@F2000000/ADPT,2940UW@E/@2:0 <-- notice the :0

I think I tried it, but have to retry. What I tried and what didn't work
was the following:
0 > setenv boot-device /bandit/ADPT,2940UW/@2:0  ok
0 > boot  can't OPEN: /bandit/ADPT,2940UW/@2:0

Only to show, bandit and ADPT,2940UW are known:
0 > dev /bandit  ok
0 > dev ADPT,2940UW  ok
0 > pwd /bandit@F2000000/ADPT,2940UW@E ok

Under ADPT I typed 'words' to see what's around, I didn't find a 'open'
as I find under 53c94. Doesn't mean that this is the point but it made
me curious.

you need to specify that partition number to quik, quik uses partition
0 to indicate that it should use the parititon marked bootable in the
partition table.  i think you could specify the root partition here as
well but im not sure of that.

[snipp]

let me know if your kernel (if 2.2.15) boots ;-)

Haeh, with bootx it still does, but the other way round I have to learn
a lot. Or buy a G4 ;-)

The last step would be attach an external narrow disk to the 53c94 and
try to boot from there. But this is a step back since the other disks
are UW/U2W.

Thanks,
Andreas

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