Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 17:01:00 -0800 From: grady@scam.XCF.Berkeley.EDU To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Booting off sd3s2a/OSBS problem Message-ID: <199803120112.RAA24366@hub.freebsd.org>
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I just installed a new drive on my machine, a 9-gig SCSI. Its SCSI id
leads it to be recognized as sd3 by FreeBSD. I'm using two slices, the
first for DOS, the second for FreeBSD. So the root partition is on
/dev/sd3s2a. Unfortunately, I can't boot off that device. I've tried
two different ways. The first is to set the boot manager to boot that
partition, but for some reason the boot manager I've got installed on
SCSI0 (OSBS) won't update the boot information any more (it gives me a
"can't write to disk"). The second is to boot directly off the boot
manager I installed on the new drive (or alternatively, to boot off the
old FreeBSD2.1.0 boot block on SCSI1). But I can't figure out what
path to give to the kernel. I tried:
sd(3,a)
sd(3,b)
3:sd(1,a)
and a few other choices.
dmesg output:
sd0(ahc0:0:0): Direct-Access 516MB (1057616 512 byte sectors)
(ahc0:2:0): "TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-5401TA 3605" type 5 removable SCSI 2
cd0(ahc0:2:0): CD-ROM can't get the size
(ahc0:3:0): "QUANTUM LIGHTNING 730S 241E" type 0 fixed SCSI 2
sd1(ahc0:3:0): Direct-Access 699MB (1431760 512 byte sectors)
(ahc0:4:0): "iomega jaz 1GB G.60" type 0 removable SCSI 2
sd2(ahc0:4:0): Direct-Access
sd2(ahc0:4:0): ILLEGAL REQUEST asc:24,0 Invalid field in CDB
sd2 could not mode sense (4). Using ficticious geometry
1021MB (2091050 512 byte sectors)
(ahc0:6:0): "MICROP 3387NS x43h" type 0 fixed SCSI 2
sd3(ahc0:6:0): Direct-Access 8296MB (16992188 512 byte sectors)
I suspect the right answer is to get OSBS working (I believe the
executable I have is OSBS20B8, which I assume indicates the version).
I can't edit the boot menu in any way right now, not even to delete
an obsolete entry.
Any help would be appreciated.
- --
Steven
"And so he says, I don't like the cut of your jib. And I
go, I says, it's the only jib I got, baby!"
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