From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 16 12:11:24 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA18777 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 16 Oct 1997 12:11:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from george.arc.nasa.gov (issCrootMprogP/bin/shFlsDFMeuAsh-c$uMlocalP/bin/shFlsDFMeuAsh-c$uR|/bin/echoSendmailIdentdBugVulnerable|mailpostmasterR|sleep2echoquit|telnet128.102.194.1425701@george.arc.nasa.gov [128.102.194.142]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA18767 for ; Thu, 16 Oct 1997 12:11:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lamaster@george.arc.nasa.gov) From: lamaster@george.arc.nasa.gov Received: (from lamaster@localhost) by george.arc.nasa.gov (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA18901 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 16 Oct 1997 12:09:41 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 12:09:41 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199710161909.MAA18901@george.arc.nasa.gov> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cannot mount / Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Over the last few weeks, I've seen a bunch of responses on this. Last summer, I attempted to get W95 and FreeBSD working under similar conditions, and ended up by: A) Leaving a dedicated W'95 EIDE disk as the master drive on the primary EIDE controller, modifying the MBR and installing booteasy B) Adding a second EIDE disk for FreeBSD - ** as the slave drive on the primary EIDE controller ** partitioning the usual way, and modifying the MBR and installing booteasy This last, that is, adding the FreeBSD disk as the *slave drive on the primary controller*, turned out to be the only way I could get the booteasy loader to work. I never could get it to boot off the secondary controller, which also now happens to have an ATAPI CDROM on it, which I moved from the primary EIDE to the secondary EIDE. I tried several permutations and combinations of kernels compiled with "config kernel root on wd[0-2], moving drives around, etc., and finally got it to work as above. YMMV, but, for some reason, I found that the root partition had to live on a drive on the primary controller, in which case it worked perfectly. In no case did it appear to work with the root partition on the secondary controller. [I'm sure it was operator error, but, there seems to be something inconsistent about the way the numeral "1" is used as a controller number between the BIOS and the OS. Oh, and another thing: I use CHS addressing on the FreeBSD disks, not LBA, and, I set it that way in the BIOS. Works just fine, even though some of the documentation steers you to LBA. I've had various troubles with LBA, and now only use it for W95. As I said, YMMV.] Of course, everything works just perfectly on a more recent system with only a single SCSI disk on it partitioned for FreeBSD. Award BIOSes, BTW. > From: Doug White > Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 10:24:06 -0700 (PDT) > Subject: Re: Cannot mount / > > On Thu, 16 Oct 1997, Aled Treharne wrote: > > > I have recently installed FBSD on my home machine following several > > succesfull experiences in the University. The machine is an AMD 486DX2-66 > > with 24Mb RAM, 3Com 3C509 TPO and ESS1868 Audio Drive sounds card - both > > on the Plug'n'Pray, ATAPI 20speed CDROM on the EIDE controller on the > > sound card, and 2 hard disks - 2.1G Fujitsu (Master) and 1.2G (Slave). I > > have windoze 95 on the fujitsu and FBSD has the other to itself, though > What is your drive layout on the IDE controllers? I'm assuming it's > something like this... > > PRIMARY IDE CONTROLLER > MASTER: 2.1GB Fujitsu : Windows 95 > SLAVE: 1.2GB Unknown : FreeBSD I'm only sending this as "a public service". People shouldn't need to waste time [their own, or, wizard's time] or get discouraged by things as simple as these. -Hugh LaMaster