From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 29 13:38:05 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id NAA13588 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 29 Dec 1996 13:38:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts15-line9.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.192]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id NAA13583 for ; Sun, 29 Dec 1996 13:38:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.2/8.6.12) with SMTP id NAA00286; Sun, 29 Dec 1996 13:37:55 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 29 Dec 1996 13:37:53 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Charles Henrich cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting w/ hardwire SCSI devices? In-Reply-To: <199612282121.QAA00602@crh.cl.msu.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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