Re: How do I boot from an external HDD?
From: Rainer Latka (spam.trap_at_tiscali.de)
Date: 09/18/04
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Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 21:03:01 +0200
S.Chang wrote:
> Hi all,
> Been fighting with the new O2 for a few hours now, still can't get it to
> boot from an external HDD.
>
> I have issued
> boot -f dksc(1,2,8)sashARCS dksc(1,2,7)stand/fx.64 --x
> didn't work, complaining the files are not there so I thought I might
> need to add 64 after sashARCS, didn't work too.
>
> Change the env using setenv for both SystemPartition and
> OSLoadPartition, reboot, didn't work too.
I once observed a similar problem with an Indigo2. Check that the
environment includes
OSLoader=sash
OSLoadFilename=/unix
in my case these were missing and prevented proper booting
>
> Double checked using hinv to make sure the external HDD is on pci 1 scsi
> 2, did everything again, still not working.
>
> pull the hard drive out and move it as an internal disk, and it worked..
>
> Can someone tell me where I did wrong?
> Cheers
>
> S.Chang
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