From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 9 04:50:37 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id EAA18355 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 9 Mar 1996 04:50:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id EAA18328 for ; Sat, 9 Mar 1996 04:50:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id NAA20618; Sat, 9 Mar 1996 13:50:25 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id NAA26870; Sat, 9 Mar 1996 13:50:24 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.4/8.6.9) id NAA26266; Sat, 9 Mar 1996 13:38:26 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199603091238.NAA26266@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Boot with 4 hard disks To: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de Date: Sat, 9 Mar 1996 13:38:26 +0100 (MET) Cc: pedrosal@nce.ufrj.br, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199603081622.RAA04681@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> from "Christoph P. Kukulies" at Mar 8, 96 05:22:38 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk As Christoph P. Kukulies wrote: > > > > > > Dear Mrs/Sirs: > > > > I have 4 hard disks (2 IDE and 2 SCSI), and installed FreeBSD on the > > second SCSI disk. How do I boot there? > > Either disable the IDE disks in the BIOS/CMOS or > use the hd(0,a)/kernel option in the FreeBSD boot.The latter requiring > to label the IDE disks with a FreeBSD label and write a boot block > to it. You could also tweak your kernel config file and wire the SCSI disks to what the bootstrap claims they were (sd2 and sd3, i suppose). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)