Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 14:52:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: "Daniel C. Konnoff" <daniel@mysonusa.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: boot problems with scsi disks Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971008145109.1983A-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.96.971008104938.1938B-100000@epsilon>
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On Wed, 8 Oct 1997, Daniel C. Konnoff wrote: > Question 1) We are having boot problems using Adaptec 294x SCSI > PCI controllers with freebsd-2.1.7 and 2.2.2 on various clone > machines, HP Netservers, and Dec PCs (hardware type does not seem > to matter). [...] > However on those machines with IDE controllers, we may boot > freebsd from the ide disk and then mount the scsi drives. This confirms > that freebsd was in fact installed. > > We have not been able to reliably boot from any Adaptec controlled > SCSI drive running freebsd. Can you shed some light on this? Do your Adaptec controllers have BIOSes on them? You can't boot from BIOS-less adapters -- they don't know how to talk to the world until a driver initializes them. > Question 2) Take a look at the following diagram please: I'm not familiar enough with ppp aliasing to know what's going on in this case, I'll leave it for someone else to answer. 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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