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by **Joh** » Fri, 17 Dec 1999 04:00:00

I'm playing around with 5.7 on an old SPARC IPX and decided to replace
the hard drive (1gig) with a 4-gigger. I reinstalled from scratch and
set up everythng pretty much the same. But on rebooting to the hd, I
get a "bootblk: can't find the boot program" error. One thing was
changed: the original drive had an id of 3 and the new one has an id
of 0. What's the easiest way to get this working w/o changing the hd
scsi id?

by **Martin Pau** » Fri, 17 Dec 1999 04:00:00

> I'm playing around with 5.7 on an old SPARC IPX and decided to replace
> the hard drive (1gig) with a 4-gigger. I reinstalled from scratch and
> set up everythng pretty much the same. But on rebooting to the hd, I
> get a "bootblk: can't find the boot program" error.

The root partition must not be larger than 1 GB on machines with
old BootPROMs.

Quote:> One thing was
> changed: the original drive had an id of 3 and the new one has an id
> of 0. What's the easiest way to get this working w/o changing the hd
> scsi id?

I think the installation process usually sets the boot-device
accordingly, so this should not be a problem.

hth, mp.
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Martin Paul | Systems Administrator

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by **Ralf Wiegan** » Sun, 19 Dec 1999 04:00:00

> > I'm playing around with 5.7 on an old SPARC IPX and decided to replace
> > the hard drive (1gig) with a 4-gigger. I reinstalled from scratch and
> > set up everythng pretty much the same. But on rebooting to the hd, I
> > get a "bootblk: can't find the boot program" error.

> The root partition must not be larger than 1 GB on machines with
> old BootPROMs.

I could be wrong, but a 4GB internal disk drive in an IPX is not a supported
configuration. Yes, BootPROM and Power issues are valid problems. If you
need an external PEB ($25 - $150 plus shipping) e-mail me at

you.

Quote:
> > One thing was
> > changed: the original drive had an id of 3 and the new one has an id
> > of 0. What's the easiest way to get this working w/o changing the hd
> > scsi id?

> I think the installation process usually sets the boot-device
> accordingly, so this should not be a problem.

At the OK prompt:
OK> printenv
OK> setenv boot-device disk#
where "#" is the logical target disk number (disk0, disk1, etc...)
OK> reset

or

OK> boot disk0

> hth, mp.
> --
> Martin Paul | Systems Administrator

> and Parallel Systems | Tel: 01-3105608-84
> Liechtensteinstrasse 22, A-1090 Wien | Fax: 01-3105608-88

Ralf Wiegand
TCS, Albany New York