Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 23:52:19 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Chris Coleman <chrisc@vmunix.com> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Not booting after install. Message-ID: <199807010652.XAA00749@antipodes.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 01 Jul 1998 00:42:04 EDT." <Pine.BSF.3.96.980701004102.9196A-100000@vnode>
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> > > > You didn't list a specific failure message... > > > > > > Well, it didn't give a specific failure... I guess these messages popped > > > up. > > > > > > Boot: > > > empty partition: > > > Can't find kernel. > > > > This sure as hell isn't "can't mount root". > > > > This means that BIOS disk 0x80 is not sd0, ie. your BIOS probes your > > SCSI controllers in a different order to FreeBSD. This is because > > someone thought it would be better to do their own PCI enumeration > > rather than use the BIOS. 8( > > > Any way of fixing this? The "best" way is to disable BIOS support on all the cards except for the one that's providing your boot device, and making sure that this is the controller probed first by FreeBSD. It's actually also possible that the above has come from having more than one FreeBSD slice on a disk; without knowing more about your setup, it's hard to be certain. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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