I just booted my SPARCstation after installing Gentoo but it won boot. Why isn it booting?
One possibility has to do with the way the that the SCSI IDs are assigned. Gentoo/SPARC developer Keith Wesolowski provides us with the following: Linux, normally, orders devices by SCSI ID. The lowest-numbered disk is sda, the next-lowest is sdb, and so on. Note that devfs allows you to specify devices by SCSI ID, so that adding a new device doesn’t cause your existing devices to be renamed, unless of course you use the compatibility names. There are additional ways to solve this. The OBP in most or all sun4c and sun4m systems aliases “disk” to the device with SCSI ID 3, and “disk0” through “disk3” to the device with = the corresponding SCSI ID, if it happens to be a disk rather than a tape, CDROM, etc. In the desktop systems of this era that support two SCA disks (the Aurora chassis systems), the lower slot is assigned SCSI ID 3, and the upper slot is assigned SCSI ID 1. If you like, you can change the PROM alias “disk” to match that of “disk1” so that the boot disk command causes th
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