Date: Sat, 30 Aug 1997 20:37:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: spork <spork@super-g.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Booting off of second disk Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970830203617.544G-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970827231051.22473B-100000@super-g.inch.com>
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On Wed, 27 Aug 1997, spork wrote: > The box is a Compaq ProSignia 486/66 with built-in SCSI that FBSD does not > recognize. I had an extra Adaptec EISA laying around, so I used that and > a very old Seagate 1G for the FBSD install. There is still a 300-ish meg > SCSI drive (weird cabling) that has DOS on it. Check. > The install went fine, and I can boot via floppy by typing in: > > boot:1:sd(0,a) > > All is well until a reboot. I tried installing booteasy tonite, and it > does work, but it sees two drives where FBSD sees one and apparently some > of the info it passes to the kernel convinces the kernel that FBSD resides > on sd1. The boot will fail with a panic when the kernel tries to mount > the nonexistant sd1a as root. Again, if I type the same incantation after > booteasy gets the kernel going, all is well. You'll need to rebuild your kernel and wire down the FreeBSD boot disk as sd0. See /sys/i386/conf/LINT for instructions. > BTW- I am *very* happy with the performance of the OS on a 486/66 with > only 8 megs. It's simply amazing compared to when it had NT 3.51... Yeah, no gigantic GUI that's an integral part of the OS to lug around. :) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo
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