From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 10 6:30:48 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 10 06:30:46 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail5.lig.bellsouth.net (mail5.lig.bellsouth.net [205.152.0.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9641737B400 for ; Sun, 10 Dec 2000 06:30:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from coastalgeology.org (adsl-20-126-152.chs.bellsouth.net [66.20.126.152]) by mail5.lig.bellsouth.net (3.3.5alt/0.75.2) with SMTP id JAA18987 for ; Sun, 10 Dec 2000 09:30:44 -0500 (EST) Received: (qmail 543 invoked by uid 1000); 10 Dec 2000 14:50:35 -0000 Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 09:50:35 -0500 From: Jonathan Pennington To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Non-bootable SCSI Message-ID: <20001210095035.A484@coastalgeology.org> Reply-To: Jonathan Pennington Mail-Followup-To: Jonathan Pennington , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i X-Warning: Bill Gates Controls The Matrix Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello FreeBSD gurus, Longtime Linux user, short time FreeBSD kid. I've got an Advansys 940UW(68) SCSI card with a lost BIOS. Have been booting to sda (da0) with a Linux zdisk floppy kernel because I cannot boot to the SCSI device. This has never been a problem, actually, I liked it for a few reasons. Problem now: da1 is a seagate drive that I installed version 4.1 of our little demon on. Install went fine, but now my system is bsd-unbootable. Because the boot manager would go on da0 (where it wouldn't get read anyway), I opted not to install one. My original naive thinking was that I would build a zdisk-like floppy, or put the boot manager on a floppy. Hours searching the archives of this list have almost led me to admit defeat in that area. I can't "boot: 1:da(1,a)/kernel" because the SCSI BIOS hasn't read the drive, and the PC BIOS doesn't see the SCSI devices (AMIBIOS R2.1). I'm trying to get the BIOS fixed, but the flash applications are all windows. Am I stuck for now? I *can* boot from ATAPI CDrom, would it be easy enough to build a bootable CDrom that mounts da1s1a as the root filesystem? -J -- Jonathan Pennington | http://coastalgeology.org Site Manager | Protection and stewardship CoastalGeology.Org (CGO) | through public education. john@coastalgeology.org | Join CGO, make a difference. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message