Date: Mon, 05 May 1997 18:08:30 +0100 From: "John O'Farrell" <john@o-farrell.com> To: The Classiest Man Alive <ksmm@cybercom.net> Cc: FreeBSD Hackers <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>, Joe Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net> Subject: Re: Installing FBSD on a second hard disk. Message-ID: <3.0.1.32.19970505180830.00f86348@mailhost.pavilion.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.95.970505115203.19455B-100000@shell1.cybercom.n et> References: <3.0.1.32.19970505153502.00f6fab8@mailhost.pavilion.co.uk>
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At 11:57 05/05/97 -0400, you wrote: >The SCSI ID of 0 (usually indicated by a switch or jumpers on the >hardware) should be reserved for the bootable drive. Set the Seagate as >SCSI ID 0 and choose unique numbers for the other two devices. It's >probably best to make the CD-ROM have a higher number than the jaz drive, >but I'm not sure it matters at all. > >> I could try changing the Adaptec SCSI bios for the Jaz Drive 4 to be the >> boot drive and then reinstalling FreeBSD? Would this then result in the Jaz >> being sd0? >> >> >X:sd(0,a)kernel >> > > >Try booting by changing to "sd(1,a)kernel" (or whatever the appropriate >syntax is). I think this means the second hard drive (the "1") and the >first partition (the "a"). This is assuming that the Seagate and the jaz >drive both have one large partition to support their respective OSes. >Otherwise, change that partition appropriately. > Hello again, I've tried a complete reinstallation as above ie after setting the Jaz as the bootable drive. It does now boot to the Jaz but ends with panic; cannot mount root. It gives the boot option of F1 for BSD or F5 second disk but attempts to boot BSD no matter which is selected. So I have had to use the SCSI bios to change the boot drive back to the Seagate, which now loads Windows NT. During installation I noticed; Disk sd1 Partition Name sd1s1 Part Mount Size Newfs sd1s1a / 32 MB UFS Y sd1s1b <none> 138 MB SWAP sd1s1e /var 30 Mb UFS Y sd1s1f /usr 820 MB UFS Y Does this help at all with regard to what I should try entering a the boot: prompt? I have tried 0:sd(1,a)/kernel and 0:sd(1,a)kernel without success. Error D:0X81 C:0 H:0 S:0 Error D:0X81 C:0 H:0 S:0 etc. -- John O'Farrell mailto:john@o-farrell.com http://www.o-farrell.com/ +44 (0)1273 709144
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