Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 11:45:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Brian O'Shea <b_oshea@yahoo.com> To: questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Boot loader doesn't see [root filesystem on] ATA disk after successful install Message-ID: <20050511184511.63760.qmail@web50910.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: 6667
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--- Joel <rees@ddcom.co.jp> wrote: > > From what little I've seen, it could be worth a try if you have the > time. Ok, I tried booting the loader on the SCSI disk, and then telling it to boot the kernel on the IDE disk. In this case it just beeped and returned me to the prompt to select a disk (F1 or F5) to boot from. The lsdev command on this boot loader gave the same results as the one booted from the IDE disk. > From what I've read and what I've experienced, putting hard disks > and CD-ROMs on the same channel is counterproductive. Boot problems > and data problems are said to be likely on many controller and drive > combinations. I know, and I wouldn't have done that except that I was surprised to find out that this PC only has one socket for an IDE cable. It has two on-board IDE controllers though! (this is an HP Kayak XU with dual PII processors, a little on the old side, but it's the only i386 SMP system that I have access to at the moment). > > > If you can boot from the SCSI, check the dmesg there to see whether > > > the ATA controller is recognized by the older system. That wouldn't > > > give an absolute answer, but might yield a clue. > > > > The older system can see the CD-ROM drive, so it must be recognizing > > the ATA controller. I'll post the relevant dmesg output tomorrow > > though. Here is the relevant dmesg output: atapci0: <Intel PIIX4 ATA33 controller> port 0xfcd0-0xfcdf at device 7.1 on pci0 ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0 ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0 ... ad0: 76319MB <WDC WD800JB-00JJC0> [155061/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA33 acd0: CDROM <CD-532E-A> at ata0-slave PIO4 Thanks for your helpful replies, -brian __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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