From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 23 17:00:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA04061 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 23 Feb 1998 17:00:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gershwin.tera.com (gershwin.tera.com [207.224.230.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA03799 for ; Mon, 23 Feb 1998 16:59:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@tera.tera.com) Received: from athena.tera.com (athena.tera.com [207.224.230.127]) by gershwin.tera.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA26384; Mon, 23 Feb 1998 16:57:30 -0800 (PST) From: Gary Kline Received: (from kline@localhost) by athena.tera.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA13458; Mon, 23 Feb 1998 16:57:28 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199802240057.QAA13458@athena.tera.com> Subject: Re: booting from SCSI-2 In-Reply-To: from Doug White at "Feb 23, 98 04:07:34 pm" To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 16:57:28 -0800 (PST) Cc: kline@tera.tera.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL23 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG According to Doug White: > On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, Gary Kline wrote: > > > Is there a way of hacking the kernel so that I can boot from > > my 2nd SCSI drive? > > No kernel changes necessary. Well, then if I put that 0:sd(1,a) in /boot.config FBSD should work, correct? ---By the way, I've got v2.1.5 installed. I'll upgrade via the net once my PLIP link works. > > > I'm installing Debian on my first and 3rd SCSI drives? > > Make sure you boot from the first; the BIOS may not be able to see the > third drive. > Yes!! It took me hours to figure this out. I've got my Deb root on unit 0, SWAP and so forth on 2. gary > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message