So I have been trying everything I can think of and still not having any success. To recap - something went wrong with my original OpenServer 5.0.6 hardware and the system would not boot, I suspect the mb but have not confirmed. Instead I have moved the hard drive to newer server hardware and the O/S will consistently boot up, however per advice from this forum I need to install newer NIC drivers in order to reconnect to my LAN. In order to do that I have to install via CD and I cannot get the CD drive(s) that I have to be recognized by the O/S. In the BIOS of the new hardware, the CD drive is recognized as the Slave device on the Primary IDE. No matter what I've tried within SCO using mkdev I cannot get the drive to be recognized. My next thought was to try switching out the physical drive, using the CD drive from the original SCO hardware, which was working fine in the O/S as far as I remember. With this drive connected to the new server, nothing is recognized in the BIOS. I tried to force the setting in BIOS to say "CD-ROM" but still won't get recognized by SCO.
The steps to add the device that I've used in SCO go like this: I remove all previously configured devices, so that nothing is shown in the /etc/conf/cf.d/mscsi file. Then I run "mkdev cdrom" and select "Install an EIDE CD-Rom drive. The next comment from SCO says I have to configure the driver, and that is when it asks which IDE device it is - to which I reply Primary, Slave. After it says the device has been added it asks if I want to install the high-sierra file system, and I say yes to that also. I save the new kernel, choose to boot new kernel by default, and rebuild the environment, etc. When I reboot I can tell that the cd-rom device does not show up at the hardware initialization stage, and when I try to "mount /dev/cd0 /mnt" I always get the same errors (I am going to attache a photo of the screen showing the errors) Today I looked closely at what the messages say, and they refer only to a "SCSI IDE" drive! I'm not dealing with a SCSI drive, so maybe this error is trying to tell me what the real problem is?
As you can see in the photo, here are the errors that come up: "CONFIG: No Srom SCSI devices configured (unit 0 missing)" and then: "WARNING: Attempt to close unopened device", then a repeat of the CONFIG error, then this: "mount: /dev/cd0: No such device or address (error 6). I am starting to lose hope of ever getting past this situation so that I can reconnect this server to my network. I would appreciate any help I can get. Thanks.
I've just installed Unix SCO OpenServer System v in an Intel PC and Everithing ok, except just one thing, in the begining of the installation the wizard asked me about the mouse , i have a generic 3 buttons mouse and i took a logitech and did not work
i need to change the mouse configuration, ... (2 Replies)
hello!
when i try to make my system dual boot with both win98 & sco open server 5.5 it doesn't work at all.neither win98 take start nor sco open server boots.what should i do ?
kindly help me
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I am doing some work for a customer that is running SCO 5.0.2 openserver and they have lost their cd. Is there anyplace I can download it? I have a replacement being shipped but it will not be here for two days and they are down. Any ideals? (3 Replies)
hello guys.
I just installed SCO 5.0.6 OpenServer it went all the way to the end of the installation and the first boot try it gave me this message.
not a directory
boot not found
cannot open
stage 1 boot failure: error loading hd (40)/boot (2 Replies)
Hi there guys.
I just got this new SCO version and i'm having some problem printing from shell,
This is what i'm typing at the # sign : lp -dHP /etc/hosts and it prints no problem but when i use any other user at the $ sign it gives me this error.
/dev/fd/7: /usr/lib/lp/sysv/7: not found.
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Hi guys,
I just got this new 6.0 version and i'm trying to setup a remote office to telnet to this server running sco 6.0, in previous version all i have to do is add this file under /etc/rc2.d call S99route and put the gate in that file and that was it, for some reason in 6.0 it does not... (1 Reply)
Dear members
when i installed dual processor patch in openserver 5.0.7 in hp ML370 G4 server it hangs in sco at G_hd_config.
i tried MP4, EFS 5.64,5.70A but not solved the problem.. (0 Replies)
Hi,
I have an openserver 5.0.0 machine in the office. The sysad of that machine left years ago without leaving the password to anyone.
I was wondering if someone has a copy of the boot / root diskettes (rescue) for this version? Or perhaps if anyone knows a download link / location in the... (0 Replies)
I need SCO Openserver 4.2. Please, give me distributive of that version SCO:eek: (0 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT CENTOS
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SD(4) Linux Programmer's Manual SD(4)NAME
sd - driver for SCSI disk drives
SYNOPSIS
#include <linux/hdreg.h> /* for HDIO_GETGEO */
#include <linux/fs.h> /* for BLKGETSIZE and BLKRRPART */
CONFIGURATION
The block device name has the following form: sdlp, where l is a letter denoting the physical drive, and p is a number denoting the parti-
tion on that physical drive. Often, the partition number, p, will be left off when the device corresponds to the whole drive.
SCSI disks have a major device number of 8, and a minor device number of the form (16 * drive_number) + partition_number, where drive_num-
ber is the number of the physical drive in order of detection, and partition_number is as follows:
partition 0 is the whole drive
partitions 1-4 are the DOS "primary" partitions
partitions 5-8 are the DOS "extended" (or "logical") partitions
For example, /dev/sda will have major 8, minor 0, and will refer to all of the first SCSI drive in the system; and /dev/sdb3 will have
major 8, minor 19, and will refer to the third DOS "primary" partition on the second SCSI drive in the system.
At this time, only block devices are provided. Raw devices have not yet been implemented.
DESCRIPTION
The following ioctls are provided:
HDIO_GETGEO
Returns the BIOS disk parameters in the following structure:
struct hd_geometry {
unsigned char heads;
unsigned char sectors;
unsigned short cylinders;
unsigned long start;
};
A pointer to this structure is passed as the ioctl(2) parameter.
The information returned in the parameter is the disk geometry of the drive as understood by DOS! This geometry is not the physical
geometry of the drive. It is used when constructing the drive's partition table, however, and is needed for convenient operation of
fdisk(1), efdisk(1), and lilo(1). If the geometry information is not available, zero will be returned for all of the parameters.
BLKGETSIZE
Returns the device size in sectors. The ioctl(2) parameter should be a pointer to a long.
BLKRRPART
Forces a reread of the SCSI disk partition tables. No parameter is needed.
The SCSI ioctl(2) operations are also supported. If the ioctl(2) parameter is required, and it is NULL, then ioctl(2) will fail
with the error EINVAL.
FILES
/dev/sd[a-h]: the whole device
/dev/sd[a-h][0-8]: individual block partitions
COLOPHON
This page is part of release 3.53 of the Linux man-pages project. A description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can
be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.
Linux 2012-05-03 SD(4)