Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 17:16:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Dave Cornejo <dave@dogwood.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: odd booting problem Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970416171551.12317M-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <199704141339.GAA00745@white.dogwood.com>
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On Mon, 14 Apr 1997, Dave Cornejo wrote: > The system is running 2.2-STABLE (RELENG_2_2 tag from April 11) > > I was moving my system from an IDE drive to a SCSI drive. I dumped > the IDE drive and moved everything over to the SCSI. I removed the > IDE drive from the system and rebooted - the kernel boots except that > the bootstrap (?) code claims it's booting "0:wd0(0,a)kernel" > (something like that at least). When it goes to mount the root device > it hangs. If I put the IDE drive back it seems to boot off the SCSI > drive but mounts the IDE drive. > > Does anyone have any helpful clues on how to get it to boot entirely > off the SCSI drives? Did you disable the IDE controller on the motherboard? Even tho it doesn't have anything connected to it, it can cause odd booting problems. BTW, you can boot up by typing sd(0,a)/kernel and it will mount fine. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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