Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 17:40:56 -0700 From: Bill Campbell <freebsd@celestial.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot order with firewire 4.8-RELEASE Message-ID: <20030624174056.A2764@barryg.mi.celestial.com> In-Reply-To: <20030624103132.A27540@barryg.mi.celestial.com>; from freebsd@celestial.com on Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 10:31:32AM -0700 References: <20030623164024.A2684@barryg.mi.celestial.com> <20030624071541.GB77226@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> <20030624103132.A27540@barryg.mi.celestial.com>
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On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 10:31:32AM -0700, Bill Campbell wrote: >On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 08:15:41AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: ... >>You can get round that by 'wiring down' the SCSI buses and devices in >>your kernel config. Eg. assume that your boot drive is at LUN 0 on an >>Adaptec SCSI interface. Then you could do: >> >> device scbus0 at ahc0 >> device da0 at scbus0 target 0 unit 0 >> >>to ensure your boot disk always appears as da0. See the section 'SCSI >>DEVICE CONFIGURATION' in /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/LINT for more details. > >Thanks! I'm climbing the learning curve on freebsd (largely ``learn by >destroying'' :-). Following up on this, the device entries above didn't quite do the trick. It required one line before the first device line to set ahc0, otherwise the build bitches it can't find ahc 0. device ahc0 at ahc? device scbus0 at ahc0 device da0 at scbus0 target 0 unit 0 Bill -- INTERNET: bill@Celestial.COM Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ Manual, n.: A unit of documentation. There are always three or more on a given item. One is on the shelf; someone has the others. The information you need in in the others. -- Ray Simard
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