Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 16:56:45 -0700 From: "Jeff Stelzner" <jeff.stelzner@alstom.esca.com> To: <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: 4.1 SCSI boot fails, 4.0->4.1 upgrade boot OK Message-ID: <000c01c00d5d$cb3df9d0$0d0516ac@esca.com>
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Hi: I just purchased the 4-CD kit from Walnut Creek and installed 4.1 from scratch on a Digital Celebris P133 box [Phoenix 4.14 BIOS] with an Adaptec AIC 7850 SCSI controller and a 2GB Seagate Barracuda SCSI disk. The install goes fine [I have to boot from floppy as this system doesn't support bootable CDROM]. However, after install, I cannot boot from the hard disk [which shows up as C: i.e. disk1]. I can boot from floppy and do 'set currdev=disk1s1a; unload; boot' OK but can't boot directly from the hard disk. If I install 4.0 from scratch and then *upgrade* to 4.1 it boots OK. I have duplicated this on a 2nd Celebris P133 machine [same CPU/BIOS, but 3 SCSI disks]. I understand that the 4.1 i386 bootstrap code is 2x bigger. Is there some magic that needs to happen for an older BIOS to work with the new boot system? I tried 'boot0cfg -o packet' but got no improvement. The system fails to boot whether I use the boot manager or the basic FreeBSD-only loader. Thanks for any info you can provide - Jeff Stelzner Voice: 425.739.3501 Email: jeff.stelzner@alstom.esca.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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