Date: Sun, 29 Dec 1996 13:37:53 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting w/ hardwire SCSI devices? Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.961229133654.242C-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <199612282121.QAA00602@crh.cl.msu.edu>
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On Sat, 28 Dec 1996, Charles Henrich wrote: > Im trying to get a machine to boot w/ 4 Adaptec 2940UW's in it, the boot disk > is on controller 2, ID 0, I've hardwired down the scsi ID's like so: > > sdXY where X is controller and Y is scsi ID, my boot disk resides on > sd20 (Its there because of how ALR probe's the dual PCI busses, > anyway...) > > FreeBSD happily loads the kernel, but then fails with cant switch to root > device sd0a, even though in the kernel I told it to boot from sd20. Must I > force a definition of sd0a and lose my nice mapping to make this sucker work? Uhhh, I'm guessing you'll have to do that for the boot disk only. Do your disks probe up with your new device numbers? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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