scsi problems - 2 question summary

2007-12-25 7:11:00

Last week I sent 2 questions to the list and received a flood of

responses. Thanks to everyone. The questions were:

1) why booting a 3/50 with a scsi disk wanted to boot from the disk

and not from the net even though the kernel was configured

properly.

There were mainly two answers to this. One was the the config line

need to be something like

config vmunix root on nfs swap on nfs

The other had to do with changing the eeprom boot device. The config

line answer is the works. The problem, as it turns out, was that

the kernel had been configured to boot from nfs, but had not been put

into place properly, and (yes) the kernel being booted was the generic

kernel.

The second question was about why dump aborted with a message

pointing to a bad sblock. Almost everyone answered this the same.

The entry in fstab had a typo in it which meant that dump couldn't

find it to convert it to the raw device.

Everything seems to work now.

Thanks again to:

Andy Sherman/AT&T Bell Laboratories/Murray Hill, NJ

Phil Hammar

Sid Shapiro

Dave Becker

john richardson

Steve Holmes purdue!sjh

Systems Administrator sjh@math.purdue.edu

Dept. of Mathematics (317) 494-6055

Purdue University

W. Lafayette, Indiana 47907

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