From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 25 13:38:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from random.ti.cz (unknown [195.70.142.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CA81315031 for ; Thu, 25 Mar 1999 13:38:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pgl@ti.cz) Received: (qmail 29715 invoked by uid 1000); 25 Mar 1999 21:37:41 -0000 Message-ID: <19990325213741.29714.qmail@random.ti.cz> From: pgl@ti.cz Subject: Hot Swappable Drives in FreeBSD To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 22:37:41 +0100 (CET) Reply-To: pgl@ti.cz X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I've been asked to evaluate an HP Netserver LC3 by my company, and I want to put FreeBSD on it. I can install it fine off of the floppies, but when I reboot, I get "Read error" on the screen - not even the bit where you can choose a kernel. I'm guessing this is something to do with the boot loader not being installed properly. The drive it's using is a 9Gb SCSI supplied by HP, and it's hot-swappable, ie I'm supposed to be able to take it out and replace it whenever I like and the machine won't fail. There's only one drive in there at the moment. When installing, it gets recognised as da0. Am I doing something wrong? I've been trying to get round this for ages, and I can't find anything online about it (maybe I'm looking in the wrong places?). Does anyone have any experience with this, or can anyone tell me what to do? Am I just missing something obvious? Do I need to have a fixed drive too boot off? Thanks for your help. -- Peter Lowe System Administrator, Telenor Internet www.ti.cz -- pgl@ti.cz To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message