Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 21:27:39 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: grady@scam.XCF.Berkeley.EDU Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Booting off sd3s2a/OSBS problem Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980311212701.16485h-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199803120112.RAA24366@hub.freebsd.org>
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On Wed, 11 Mar 1998 grady@scam.XCF.Berkeley.EDU wrote: > 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: Your SCSI controller wants to make sd0 (516mb) and sd1 (jaz) the bootable devices, so your sd3 (9g) is hidden. Swap the Jaz's and 9gig SCSI IDs then try it. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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