Re: Debian 3.0 on Netra X1, installs but won't run

[Patrick Morris <trick@adonis.net>]

Nope, it's not a Sparc thing, it's an IDE thing.  Maybe it depends on 
the motherboard, but just last week I was building a OpenBSD box out of 
spare parts that wouldn't boot because the CD on the second IDE was 
jumpered as a master.

Marc Singer wrote:

> Interesting.  I've never had a problem with it on IA32 motherboards.
> Is this specific to the Sparc implementation, or have I always been
> doing things wrong?
>
> On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 02:41:31PM -0700, Patrick Morris wrote:
>  
>
> > That may be your problem right there.  If nothing else is on the 
> > controller, it shouldn't be a master.
> >
> > Yank all the master/slave/cable select jumpers off and give that a shot.
> >
> >