Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 14:17:36 -0500 (EST) From: Andrea Di Fabio <fabio@cs.odu.edu> To: Richard Lyon <rlyon@ozemail.com.au> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IDE + SCSI Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.980211140636.8105B-100000@rose.cs.odu.edu> In-Reply-To: <01bd36f8$7a8f4180$19cd6ccb@rlyon>
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Well after many tries I have managed to boot from the SCSI drive. The problem is with the bootmanager, which needs to be installed from windows 95 in the IDE disk after the BSD is installed in the SCSI disk. Everything seems to be fine now ... BUT: by default the kernwl is loaded from sd(1,a)kernel and then at the very end of the process I get a: "cannot mount root from sd1" and the machine rebbots. If I specify at the boot prompt: 1:sd(0,1)kernel then I manage to mount / and I am good to go. Is there any way to make this painful typing of 1:sd(0,1)kernel automatic, so that It will look there by default ? Also, what kernel is it loading at sd1 ?? I do not have an sd1 ... !! Question 2: I am using a packard bell PC with a PS/2 mouse, and I am having trouble when trying to start X. It seems not to like my mouse and complains about the device 'psm0' which is in /dev !! The manual says that the device needs to be reconfigured ... Well what does it mean ? I have also tried to use the sysinstall and selected PS/2 mouse, with no luck at all :) Thanks for your help :) On Thu, 12 Feb 1998, Richard Lyon wrote: #See comments below: # #-----Original Message----- #From: Andrea Di Fabio <fabio@cs.odu.edu> #To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> #Date: Wednesday, 11 February 1998 13:50 #Subject: IDE + SCSI # # #>I am trying to install 2.2.5 on a 1G SCSI drive. #>I use a aha1542cf and it seems to be working fine. #> #>My primary drive is a 2.3G IDE drive with Win95. #>After installing BSD on the SCSI drive I am not able to #boot it. #> # #This is a similar setup to what I use. The problem is #because BIOS cannot #access the SCSI disk. With your exisiting hardware you have #two choices. The #first is to simply use the BIOS setup to disable the IDE #drive before you attempt #to boot FBSD. The second is to create a small partition on #the IDE drive and #install '/' as the mountpoint. # #It may be possible to also do something with a floppy disk, #but I have never tried #this. My final solution was to totally dedicate the machine #to FBSD and put Microsoft #on a separate machine. # # # To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe questions" in the body of the message
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