From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 7 17:26:00 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA29178 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 7 Apr 1997 17:26:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zeus.xtalwind.net (slipper6a.xtalwind.net [205.160.242.61]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA29162 for ; Mon, 7 Apr 1997 17:25:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (zeus.xtalwind.net [127.0.0.1]) by zeus.xtalwind.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id UAA01944 for ; Mon, 7 Apr 1997 20:25:47 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 7 Apr 1997 20:25:46 -0400 (EDT) From: jack X-Sender: jack@zeus.xtalwind.net To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Booting SCSI first over IDE In-Reply-To: <9704071250.AA17006@pineal.math.FAU.EDU> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk This thing has been passed around so many times I don't know who the original poster was. On Mon, 7 Apr 1997, Gabi Hannawi wrote: > > > > 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. cd /usr/src/sys/i386/boot/biosboot {your favorite editor here} Makefile (edit and uncomment the following line after reading and understanding the comments above and below it) #CFLAGS+= -DBOOT_HD_BIAS=1 make all install disklabel -B sd0 reboot move on to bigger and better things. :) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack O'Neill Finger jacko@diamond.xtalwind.net or jack@xtalwind.net http://www.xtalwind.net/~jacko/pubpgp.html #include for my PGP key. PGP Key fingerprint = F6 C4 E6 D4 2F 15 A7 67 FD 09 E9 3C 5F CC EB CD --------------------------------------------------------------------------