Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 19:27:37 +0000 From: "Riley J. McIntire" <chaos@mail.tgci.com> To: Robert Clark <ROBERTC@PII.COM> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can't boot from 2nd drive Message-ID: <199705150256.TAA11061@train.tgci.com>
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What I really need to know is how to get this second drive to boot. I mean it doesn't boot by itself and I don't want to do a complete reinstall. The scsi drive *only* boots from the floppy. > 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. > 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 disable the IDE bus--fbsd doesn't see the IDE. The scsi still won't boot. > 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 tried osbs too... > > > Robert Clark (Robert.Clark@PII.COM) > Corporate Network Operations Admin > Praegitzer Industries Incorporated > Riley > >>> "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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