Before you start you might need to consider your disk configuration
to sort out a quirk in SCSI-ID to SD-UNIT mapping that exists on
Sun SPARCstations.

Upon leaving the factory, SunOS and the OpenBOOT ROM map according to
this table:

    SCSI-ID ->	SunOS SD-UNIT
    0		sd3
    1		sd1
    2		sd2
    3		sd0
    4		sd4
    5		sd5
    6		sd6

Unlike SunOS and the OpenBOOT ROM, a generic FabBSD kernel numbers
SCSI drives sequentially as it finds them.  The drive with the
lowest SCSI-ID will be called sd0, the next one sd1, etc.

To ease the installation process, two FabBSD kernels are provided in
the installation sets.  The default FabBSD kernel (bsd) is set up
to use the FabBSD mapping, while a special kernel (bsd.scsi3) is
set up to match the Sun mapping above by hard-wiring SCSI-ID#3 to sd0
and SCSI-ID#0 to sd3. The remaining drives will be dynamically mapped
to other sd* numbers.

This is mostly a non-issue if you have only one drive on your system,
but can get confusing if you have multiple drives.  If you plan
to eliminate SunOS altogether it may be best to correct the SCSI-IDs
of your drives, while if you plan to leave SunOS installed, it may
be better to install FabBSD on a drive with SCSI-ID 1 or 0.

Older OpenBoot proms (versions 1.x) provide an environment variable,
sd-targets, that controls the drive<->SCSI-ID mapping; you can change
this to reflect the natural ordering or just set the boot related
variables to boot from the correct drive, whatever the numbering. Its
default-value is ``31204567'', which means unit 0 and 3 are exchanged.
To revert to the ``normal'' behaviour, enter the following command:

    ok setenv sd-targets 01234567

NOTE: if you elect to build a custom kernel you may want to "hardwire"
the SCSI-IDs to sd0->SCSI-ID 0 or your desired scheme, this helps
prevent accidents if you change the SCSI bus configuration or a drive
is down.

Your OpenBOOT ROM may need some setup.  If you are running FabBSD on
a sun4c, or sun4m system, the ROM must be set to "new" command mode.
If your sun4c or sun4m machine comes up and gives you a `>' prompt
instead of `ok', type:

    >n
    ok setenv sunmon-compat? false
    ok

This is needed because FabBSD relies on the behaviour of the "new" command
mode.  FabBSD will not boot correctly on sun4c or sun4m systems that
are not running in "new" command mode.  The sun4 systems such as the 4/110,
4/200, and 4/300 system do not have a "new" command mode, and will work
fine as-is.


Also, you cannot use the security modes of the SPARC OpenBOOT ROM.
Make sure that the ROM security modes are disabled:

    ok setenv security-mode none

To disable automatic boot use the following command:

    ok setenv auto-boot? false

and then to enable it later use:

    ok setenv auto-boot? true

or on an installed system use the eeprom(8) command:

    # eeprom 'auto-boot?=true'

Please note that while FabBSD and SunOS have a reasonable degree of
compatibility between disk labels and filesystems, there are some problems
to watch out for during initial installation or when trying to maintain
both FabBSD and SunOS environments on the same system.

    If the FabBSD fsck(8) utility is used on a SunOS filesystem, it will
    set FabBSD "clean flags" and BSD4.4 summary fields in the superblock.
    SunOS does *not* like this and you will have to do a "fsck -b 32" under
    SunOS to access an alternate superblock to repair the filesystem.  You
    should always specify SunOS filesystem with a "pass number" of 0 in
    their /etc/fstab entry to prevent this, and preferably mount them "RO".

    If SunOS fsck is used on an FabBSD filesystem in the default FabBSD
    (4.4BSD) format, it will first complain about the superblock and then
    about missing . and .. entries.  Do *not* try to "correct" these
    problems, as attempting to do so will completely trash the filesystem.

    You should avoid using soft updates (option softdep in /etc/fstab)
    on your shared filesystems.
    Although untested, it is likely that SunOS would be confused by a
    filesystem with soft update flags enabled.

The FabBSD "Sun Compatible" disklabel has been extended to support 16
partitions, which may be compatible with Solaris and SunOS, but they will
only see the first 8 partitions and you may "lose" information about the
extended partitions.


FabBSD and Sun BSD bootblocks are similar in concept, though implemented
differently.  The FabBSD bootblocks are architecture independent and also
understand the extended disk labels with 16 partitions.  You can use SunOS
bootblocks, but remember that FabBSD bootblocks must be installed with
FabBSD installboot and SunOS bootblocks with SunOS installboot.