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From: "Riley J. McIntire" <chaos@mail.tgci.com>
To: Robert Clark <ROBERTC@PII.COM>
Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 19:27:37 +0000
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Subject: Re: Can't boot from 2nd drive
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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
> 
> 
>