Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 09:50:35 -0500 From: Jonathan Pennington <john@coastalgeology.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Non-bootable SCSI Message-ID: <20001210095035.A484@coastalgeology.org>
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Hello FreeBSD gurus, Longtime Linux user, short time FreeBSD kid. I've got an Advansys 940UW(68) SCSI card with a lost BIOS. Have been booting to sda (da0) with a Linux zdisk floppy kernel because I cannot boot to the SCSI device. This has never been a problem, actually, I liked it for a few reasons. Problem now: da1 is a seagate drive that I installed version 4.1 of our little demon on. Install went fine, but now my system is bsd-unbootable. Because the boot manager would go on da0 (where it wouldn't get read anyway), I opted not to install one. My original naive thinking was that I would build a zdisk-like floppy, or put the boot manager on a floppy. Hours searching the archives of this list have almost led me to admit defeat in that area. I can't "boot: 1:da(1,a)/kernel" because the SCSI BIOS hasn't read the drive, and the PC BIOS doesn't see the SCSI devices (AMIBIOS R2.1). I'm trying to get the BIOS fixed, but the flash applications are all windows. Am I stuck for now? I *can* boot from ATAPI CDrom, would it be easy enough to build a bootable CDrom that mounts da1s1a as the root filesystem? -J -- Jonathan Pennington | http://coastalgeology.org Site Manager | Protection and stewardship CoastalGeology.Org (CGO) | through public education. john@coastalgeology.org | Join CGO, make a difference. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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