Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 15:36:30 -0700 From: Robert Clark <ROBERTC@PII.COM> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, chaos@mail.tgci.com, chaos@tgci.com Subject: I dealt with a similar situation for awhile. Message-ID: <s379dd69.047@pii.com>
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I dealt with a similar situation for awhile. In my case the IDE disk was only 540MB. I just got used to turning the IDE on and off in CMOS. Even with the drive off in CMOS, it was visable to FBSD. I used OSBS, and think I could have made it work. I never got around to re-building a kernel. I gave the IDE drive to my brother, end of problem. I would've liked to get booting FBSD from the SCSI going, so that I could use the DOS booting program. WHY? So that the system could autoswitch back and forth. [RC] Robert Clark (Robert.Clark@PII.COM) Corporate Network Operations Admin Praegitzer Industries Incorporated >>> "Riley J. McIntire" <chaos@mail.tgci.com> 05/14/97 07:38am >>> I've seen similar stuff here, but not quite the problem I'm having. Nothing in a (quick) search of the archives, either. I'm currently running 2.1.7-R on an IDE drive (1.2 GB Maxtor). Has a 50MB DOS partition, the rest fbsd. The second drive, which will (hopefully) soon replace the above, is a Seagate ST51080N 1GB scsi riding a 2940W. The scsi has a 50 MB DOS partition, and I did an ftp install of 2.2.1-R on the remainder. And I can't boot from it. Usually. Installed booteasy, comes up F1 dos, F2 FBSD, F5 Second Disk. If I press F5 it then shows F? and nothing works. If I disable (bios) the ide drive, it boots F1 F2, but again gives F? when pressed. With both drives enabled and pressing F2 for the IDE drive, if at the boot prompt I type in sd(0,a)/kernel which should be the scsi 2.2.1, it boots 2.1.7. (Don't know if it means anything, but the root of the second disk did not have a "kernal", just kernel.GENERIC, which I copied. ) I *can* boot 2.2.1 if I disable the IDE and use the boot floppy. I've played around in sysinstall's disk labeller to make the drive bootable, doesn't help. One more thing, the bootinst table for booteasy shows neither the DOS or fbsd partitions as bootable on the scsi disk. Any help or pointers would be greatly appreciated. tia, Riley
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