Very Computer

Hi,

I tried to install a second HD (the seagate) on a sparc 5, on RedHat
6.2:

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scsi:1 host
Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST34371W SUN4.2G REV:7462
Type: Direct-access             ANSI SCSI revision:02
Detected SCSI disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0
Vendor: IBM Model: DPES31080SUN1.05 Rev:S80B
Type: Direct-access             ANSI SCSI revision:02
Detected SCSI disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 3, lun 0
scsi: detected 2 scsi disks total.

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following error during the boot process appears:

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VFS: Cannot open root device 08:02
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:02
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can anyone help me? thanx in advance.
willi

So you are unable to open 08:02 which is /dev/sda2 where I suppose that
your root partition lives? Reading at the detection of disks we can see
that booth disks (id 1 and id3) are detected as "SCSI disk sda". This is
not good, one of them should probably be sda and the other sdb.

I'm not familiar with Linux on sparc, but I think I recall something
about old sparc machines having SCSI ID 3 becoming SCSI ID 0 which they
were supposed to boot from. Maybe this is giving you some trouble now?
If so, you could try to give the new seagate SCSI ID 4 instead of SCSI
ID 3.

regards Henrik

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