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- From: lgy@landau.phys.washington.edu (Laurence Yaffe)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: Problems booting miniroot on R4K Indigo
- Date: 21 Jan 93 05:36:27 GMT
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- olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson) writes:
-
- >In <lgy.727572456@landau> lgy@landau.phys.washington.edu (Laurence Yaffe) writes:
- >| I have not been able to get the miniroot booted on my new R4000 Indigo.
- >| I am attempting to install the system on an external 3rd party disk
- >| (HP C2247 1Gb) which worked fine on a demo Indigo, using a local CDrom drive.
-
- [details omitted]
-
- >Probably SCSI bus errors or timeouts (the latter more likely, given
- >the timing). This prevents root from being mounted, hence the final
- >failure.
-
- >I'd recommend running a full exercise with fx (wr-cmp). I'll
- >bet you'll see some errors. Cabling, termination, and drive
- >firmware problems are the likely causes, in that order.
-
- >Since the drive worked on an Indigo, I'd definitely suspect cabling
- >or termination.
-
- Once again, Dave is correct. Actually, it wasn't cabling or termination,
- it was both cabling and termination problems! An old cable that worked
- fine with SCSI-1 drives just didn't cut it with a new SCSI-2 drive.
-
- Thanks for the help
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