Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1999 13:13:32 +0930 (CST) From: Greg Lewis <glewis@ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au> To: Paul Keusemann <pkeusem@visi.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: boot/loader problem -- currdev is not boot disk Message-ID: <199907100343.NAA05627@ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <19990709093649.A15301@isis.visi.com> from Paul Keusemann at "Jul 9, 1999 09:36:49 am"
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> Is there any way to specify the current drive when starting /boot/loader? Do you actually want to set the current drive? From your description it sounds like root_dev_unit is more along the lines of the variable you want to set. I can't be 100% sure on that, but it might be worth a try. > I've got a system with one IDE drive and two SCSI controllers, one Adaptec > 1542 and one Adaptec 2940. I'm trying to boot off of the first disk > on the ISA controller which the bios sees first but the boot loader and > kernel see second, i.e. when the boot loader starts, it thinks currdev > is the first disk on the 2940 which does not have a FreeBSD partition on it. > > I can boot manually by setting the current drive after the boot loader is > running. What I'm looking for is a way to tell the boot loader that the > current drive is disk1s1a. Adding a line to /boot/loader.rc won't work > because the loader can't even find /boot/loader.rc, I need to set currdev > in order to read /boot/loader.rc. > > This is what I've got so far: > > Booteasy on the ide drive (wd0) > Booteasy on the first drive on the 1542 (sd1) > 1:sd(0,a)/boot/loader in /boot.config on sd1 > > I can autoboot as far as the disk1s1a prompt from the boot loader. What is the actual error message you get? -- Greg Lewis glewis@trc.adelaide.edu.au Computing Officer +61 8 8303 5083 Teletraffic Research Centre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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