Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 13:19:53 -0500 From: Kris Kirby <kris@airnet.net> To: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu> Cc: FreeBSD-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Tell BootEasy Where to Go! Message-ID: <353A4049.850630FD@airnet.net> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980419010450.6766l-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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Doug White wrote: > > On Sat, 18 Apr 1998, Jason C. Wells wrote: > > > I just got a new 2940UW and a Seagate Hawk. WooHoo! > > > > I did a minimum dedicated disk install on the new SCSI disk. I left my > > old IDE disc untouched. The newfs is in place. > > > > Windows is still on the IDE drive. Win boots when I hit f1. FreeBSD > > boots from the IDE when I hit f2. > > > > I was unable to get my system to boot from the SCSI by typing any > > permutation of number:sd(0,a)kernel at the boot: prompt. > > > > I want BootEasy to boot FreeBSD from my new sd0. I don't want to boot > > FreeBSD from my old IDE any more. I want boot Win95 from the old IDE > > just like it does now. > > > > How do I tell BootEasy where to go? > > Yuck. This is hard. Having a combo IDE/SCSI system and trying to boot > from both throws BIOSes for a loop. You probably need a more intelligent > boot manager, like OS-BS or the one that comes with PartitionMagic. > Man pages nextboot(8) and boot(8) come to mind. After you are sure you can boot the kernel, change the boot blocks to boot from sd0. First question: Are you sure you have a kernel on sd0? Find out what partition it is in. For example: I know that my kernel is going to boot from /. % mount /dev/wd0a on / (local) % Aha, (wd0,a)/kernel. I am unfamiliar with SCSI disks running under FreeBSD, but I can imagine once you have booted the kernel, all the other problems will be easier to get rid of. But why do you want to boot FreeBSD from the SCSI drive and not the IDE drive? Have you copied it all over? -- Kris Kirby <kris@airnet.net> ------------------------------------------- TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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