On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, Rani Hansen wrote:

> So I put in a Promise UltraDMA 133 ide controller in PCI slot 2 and
> voila! I'am able see all the disk and install OpenBSD 3.5 with no
> problems to wd0.
>
> Now comes the problem.
> When I reboot the system it won't even try to boot from the disk.
> I assume this has to do with the Openboot or whatever this Sun bios is
> called. As an almost total newbie on Sun hardware, is there anyone out
> there who knows a/the method to be able to boot directly from this
> drive?

i'm pretty sure you can't. the firmware will only talk to a limited set
of controllers it knows about. this isn't like a pc which emulates some
lowest common denominator controller. you'll have to add a boot drive
onto the main channel.

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