Date: Sun, 4 May 1997 18:29:41 -0400 (EDT) From: The Classiest Man Alive <ksmm@cybercom.net> To: Josef Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, john@o-farrell.com Subject: Re: Installing FBSD on a second harddisk. Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.95.970504182544.10631B-100000@shell1.cybercom.net> In-Reply-To: <19970504211259.58735@pavilion.net>
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I run FreeBSD from a jaz cartridge. I have two IDE drives which are running Windows and OS/2 (oops, not supposed to say that out loud!) and the jaz is attached to an Adaptec AHA-1542. By disabling the IDE drives through the systems BIOS, I can get the Adaptec to treat the jaz as a bootable C: drive, and installation and bootup proceed normally. I could not get the jaz drive to boot with the IDE drives enabled, but I believe that's due to a limitation in the 1542's BIOS that only allows it to map a C: or D: drive on startup. K.S. On Sun, 4 May 1997, Josef Karthauser wrote: > On Sun, May 04, 1997 at 02:35:25AM -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > I've noticed in the kernel config that there is a: > > > kernel boot wd0 > > > line, but my primary drive is sd0 so I'm confused. > > > > > > What's the obvious thing that I'm missing? Maybe Jordon could include > > > some extra stuff in sysinstall to allow this to work on the install. > > > I'm sure that lots of people out there want this functionality. > > > > Hmm. I was under the impression that it did! Some people have > > successfully installed off of jazz drives (and I remember seeing some > > patches to make this work specifically going into the tree). Either > > that or my memory is totally shot. :) In any case, are you totally > > sure of the jazz drive's configuration? Does it work under any other > > OS as configured? > > > > Jordan > > I'm not trying this at the moment, I'm asking for a friend of mine > (john@o-farrell.com) who's trying to make it work. I did try it > under 2.1.5 on a two disk ide system, trying to install it on the > second drive (wd1). I couldn't get it to work, i.e. it couldn't > find it's root partition after booting the kernel. > > John is trying it under 2.1.7 and trying to install on the Jazz > drive which is his second drive (I haven't asked him for the > scsi ids he's using.) He appears to be having the same problem. > > :( > > Joe. > -- > Josef Karthauser > Technical Manager Email: joe@pavilion.net > Pavilion Internet plc. [Tel: +44 1273 607072 Fax: +44 1273 607073] > >
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