From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 5 01:42:41 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA29167 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 5 Apr 1997 01:42:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from donald.iafrica.com (donald.iafrica.com [196.31.1.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id BAA29162 for ; Sat, 5 Apr 1997 01:42:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from donald.iafrica.com [127.0.0.1] by donald.iafrica.com with smtp (Exim 1.61 #1) id 0wDRzQ-0006i7-00; Sat, 5 Apr 1997 11:42:28 +0200 Date: Sat, 5 Apr 1997 11:42:26 +0200 (SAT) From: "Andre Sachs [Staff]" To: FreeBSD questions Subject: Booting SCSI first over IDE In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi All, I'm running 2.2-RELEASE. I have an AHA2940 with a Seagate SCSI drive and a Seagate IDE drive. When I enable the IDE drive in the BIOS, (after BS-OS to boot off the SCSI) the kernel panics because it can't mount / on sd1. Fair enough recompile the kernel to mount root on sd1 and it fails again. Vexing. I even tryed changing the fstab to reflect sd1. Failed again. I have heard that it is possible to force the IDE to slave using the cable select option, is this the only solution? If so could a kind soul point me to the instructions for wiring a cable select bus cable? Basically i would like to boot the SCSI as my primary and the use a boot manager to get at the IDE for Windoze. Any help would be greatly appreciated Regards Andre -------------------------------------------------------------- - Andre Sachs UUNET Internet Africa National Support Centre - ------------------------------o0o-----------------------------