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Date: Sun 06-Dec-1990 13:47:01 From: quarrie@cds001.cebaf.gov (David Quarrie) Subject: Problems booting from Fujitsu disk This is my first attempt at posting to a newsgroup, so apologies in advance for any stupidities... The NeXTcube I ordered from Businessland arrived yesterday, as did a Fujitsu 680MB hard drive from Mac!Direct! configured (supposedly) for the NeXT. After getting the system to boot from the OD and playing for a bit (I'm a brand new NeXT user - we use DECstations at work) I decided to try getting the system to boot from the Fujitsu, following a recipe I got from Benson Wu (bmwu@athena.mit.edu) using some earlier postings. This included the /etc/disktab entries and notes on internal jumper settings. After flailing around a bit due to a bad SCSI connector (luckily I had a spare cable) and delving inside the disk to remove two jumpers as per the recipe (which I'll add to the end of this posting) I finally got "scsimodes" to recognise the disk. I should add that I discovered the cable problem after removing the jumpers and so don't know what effect they had. After adding the relevant /etc/disktab entries I was able to build a system on the disk using BuildDisk. I then modified the /etc/fstab entry on the disk to only mount the single partition (since that was how I did the disktab entry). However, on attempting to boot from the disk I got a flashing "SCSI Error" message. On going to the ROM monitor and trying a "b" it appears to access the correct drive but then issues an error: No bootfile on path On rebooting from the OD and mounting the hard disk, I discovered that BuildDisk had only copied /odmach to the hard drive and not /sdmach (any idea why not??). I copied this by hand and tried rebooting again, but it still fails with the same error. So..... HELP!!! If anyone can point me at the appropriate manual to RTFM or has encountered anything like this I'd be very grateful. The recipe I got follows (quite long). ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Article 5908 of comp.sys.next:
Date: Thu 6 Dec 1990 20:19:09 From: Unknown Subject:Re: Problems booting from Fujitsu disk Thanks to the netters who replied. To cut a long story short it turns out I had mistyped one entry in /etc/disktab. I had :os#sdmach instead of :os=sdmach Correcting that has cured the problem and now it boots just fine. Now for V2.0 and the '040 upgrade!! Thanks again to Chris Day (ctday@lbl.gov) Karl Sierka (sierka@ncar.ucar.edu) Ingo Cyliax (cyliax@ecn.purdue.edu)
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