Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 12:54:39 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: boot0 only seeing first two drives? Message-ID: <200411151254.39712.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <4195417A.7010803@broadpark.no> References: <4195417A.7010803@broadpark.no>
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On Friday 12 November 2004 06:04 pm, Henrik W Lund wrote: > Greetings! > > I'm having a bit of a pickle with boot0, running amd64 5.3-STABLE on an > Asus K8V mobo. My disks are set up thus: > > Secondary master: 20gig Quantum Fireball ATA66 disk - one partition with > Windows XP on it, and boot0. > > VIA RAID controller, first drive: 120gig Western Digital SATA150 disk - > one slice with FreeBSD on it and no bootloader. > > The BIOS is set up to boot from the Quantum disk (as Windows refuses to > boot unless it finds itself on disk 0x80), this brings up the boot0 boot > manager and I can switch between FreeBSD and Windows just fine. > > Now, when I throw a secondary slave into the mix, suddenly the boot0 > boot manager no longer "sees" the disk on the RAID controller (the > FreeBSD disk, the most important one), and the CMOS setup doesn't allow > me to bump this disk back up to 0x81. > > Does the boot0 boot manager only "see" disks 0x80 and 0x81, or is this > some kind of weirdness? It only sees whatever drives the BIOS lists. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org
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