[Suns-at-Home] SunPCi and IDE

[Mauricio Tavares]

On Wed, 9 May 2007, Andre van Eyssen wrote:

 > On Mon, 7 May 2007, Mauricio Tavares wrote:
 >
 >
 >> but still will try to boot from an image or will ask for one if it 
is not there (or I deleted its Sunpci.ini file). How to persuade the 
card to see the HD as the C: drive?  Is that a hardware limitation or an 
issue with the bios.bin  or cmos.bin files (off /opt/SUNWspci/bios) it 
supposedly load at boot?
 >
 > Tried hitting del for setup? <shrug>
 >
 > Otherwise you could deploy something like grub onto the virtual drive 
and use that to boot from the spindle.
 >
     Well, here is the problem AFAIK:

raub@nassau-18>cat pc/SunPC.ini
[Drives]
A drive=/dev/rdiskette
C drive=/export/home/raub/pc/DOS.diskimage
CD=/vol/dev/aliases/cdrom0

[Disk32]
Enabled=Yes

[Display]

VesaModes=Disabled

raub@nassau-19>

     From its config file, sunpci seems to want to know where its C 
drive is hiding. As of now, it expects it to be an image in my account 
in the machine. If you just delete that line, it will complain and ask 
for a new C drive. So, the question is really how to make the sunpci 
either not check for where C drive is, letting the card bios take over, 
or boot from the ide disk.  Of course, another option would be what you 
suggested: see if I can make the HD the D drive and then make the C 
drive big enough to run lilo/grub and go to the D drive.