Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 14:12:56 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.osd.bsdi.com> To: mjacob@feral.com Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.osd.bsdi.com>, Dirk Kleinhesselink <dkleinh@phy.ucsf.edu>, alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.1-20000719-RC#2 Message-ID: <5176.964213976@localhost> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 21 Jul 2000 14:01:05 PDT." <Pine.BSF.4.05.10007211358410.8451-100000@semuta.feral.com>
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> The presumption here is that sysinstall is mounting the wrong disk. This has > nothing to do with preservation of old data. Well, I'm still not sure how sysinstall could "mount the wrong disk" unless you explicitly told it to do so or major/minor devices are broken so badly that /dev/sd0a actually points to SCSI disk #2 rather than #1 on your system (which I kinda doubt). When you actually come up, mounting the right disk as root is more of a loader issue and setting your root device properly; it has nothing to do with sysinstall. > On isaac.nas.nasa.gov, putting boot.flp on the *second* disk, I ran into the > 'going nowhere w/o my init' problem as soon as I selected a terminal type. > NetBSD was installed on the first && third disks. I really don't know what you mean by "putting boot.flp on the second disk" - you mean you dd'd the boot.flp image straight onto the beginning of your SCSI drive? I'm getting even more confused. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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