[TUHS] DG/UX user/admin around?

DG UX dgunix at gmail.com
Wed Aug 25 00:44:20 AEST 2010


I've tried 3 things:

1. Board shows "PCI3"
2. Linux LiveCD says PCI slot 3
3. I've tried a million combinations, just for the heck of it. None worked.

And also, as I said, in case there is only 1 adapter it should
automatically default and I cant shorthand it, as -
sd(apsc(pci(),3),0)root
Of course that as for the controller ID it is 7 - as shown by the
Adaptec management tool and the device ID is 1 (or 0), depending on
where I put it's jumper and also shown by mgmt tool at boot.

Got any other ideas of how to verify bus/slot?


On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 4:01 AM, Natalia Portillo <claunia at claunia.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Just a question.
>
> How did you checked the PCI bus and slot numbers?
> Counting physically on the motherboard?
>
> If this is the case you're doing it wrong.
>
> The chipset could have various buses and slot numbers and so what appears physically to be slot 0 can easily be bus 2 slot 6.
>
> El 11/08/2010, a las 15:14, DG UX escribió:
>
>> Sorry to bother you all with my questions over this ancient machine
>> and my failing trials with it..
>> Trying to get a DGUX system (Intel based) to work, as is, on a 'regular' x86 PC.
>>
>> Just a couple of things :
>>
>> 1. I did find out that that DG machine is looking for an Adaptec PCI
>> SCSI Controller, and so I got an AHA-2940UW PCI card, installed it in
>> an old PC, got a matching 9GB HDD and booted it up from my image I've
>> 'DD'ed from the original DG machine.
>> Boot prompt came up and said it's trying to load
>> sd(apsc(pci(0),d,0,7),1,0)root:/dgux -3
>> it didn't, no error msg, just gave me back a "Boot command:" prompt.
>> Bootpath of the original machine is sd(apsc(pci(0),d,0,7),1,0)root:/dgux -3.
>> The disk drive parameters are correct, according to the docs, its -
>> dev(ctrl(pci[pci_num]),slot[,func_num[,ctrl_id]])[,dev_id[,LUN]]).
>> I've checked the PCI slot in which I installed the card, it's 3, and
>> so I've tried '3' instead of 'd' in the command above, just got the
>> boot prompt back again.
>> Also tried - sd(apsc(pci(),3),0)root:/dgux -3  which should also work
>> according to the docs (all other params are default).
>> Tried to play with it and tried tons of combinations, just for the
>> heck of it, still nothing. If I do type in some nonsense it does give
>> me an error msg : "Error: No device specifications found in the boot
>> command. Invalid boot command line".
>> According to the docs, once I get the correct syntax, the system should load up.
>> Anyone got any advice about that?
>>
>> 2.   Anyone here a/was a DG/UX user/admin? you guys are very hard to find :)
>>
>> Thanks,
>> D'
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