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Date:      Wed, 29 Dec 1999 02:12:34 -0800
From:      "Don Sutter" <drs@hevanet.com>
To:        "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Multiple OS System - Booting FreeBSD 3.3 with LILO
Message-ID:  <003f01bf51e5$3a81a9c0$17fea8c0@don>

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> Wrap lines at 74 characters of so--otherwise we have to do it for you.

Sorry.  I thought I had already fixed this.  Hope this is better.

> Anyway, you're booting from three drives.  Maybe this is possible--the
> bios offers two ide drives and then the scsi controller takes over.  I
> have a setup right now that can boot FreeBSD from a third scsi drive,
but
> I'm assuming it's sort of a fluke.

Well, I don't know.  This setup was working fine at one time.  I upgraded
the Caldera partition to version 2.3 but I don't remember checking out
whether FreeBSD still booted.  I've now upgraded the FreeBSD partition to
3.3 and don't know which "upgrade" caused the problem.

> Also I wonder whether it would work if you used da instead of sda on the
> FreeBSD drive device.

Neither Caldera or Redhat recognize "da" as a valid device.  "sda" or
"sda1", but not "da".  The device has to be a valid /dev for lilo to
install.

> Annelise
> >
> > -------------- drive configuration ---------------
> >
> > Disk 1 (BIOS Drive 0x80) - IDE - Disk is dedicated to Windows 95
> > (/dev/hda)
> >
> > Disk 2 (BIOS Drive 0x81) - IDE - Two systems on this disk:
> >
> >         First Partition - Redhat Linux 6.0 (/dev/hdb1)
> >         Second Partition - Caldera 2.3 (/dev/hdb2)
> >
> > Disk 3 (BIOS Drive 0x82) - SCSI - Disk is dedicated to FreeBSD
> > (/dev/sda)
> >
> > -------------- error log ---------------
> >
> > Waiting 15 seconds for SCSI devices to settle
> > changing root device to da2s1a
> > changing root device to da2ada0 at aha1 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
> > da0: <MICROP 1528-15MD1066701 DD24> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-CCS
device
> > da0: 5.000MB/s transfers (5.000MHz, offset 8)
> > da0: 1280MB (2621688 512 byte sectors: 64H 32S/T 1280C)
> > cd0 at aha1 bus 0 target 5 lun 0
> > cd0: <NEC CD-ROM DRIVE:500 2.5> Removable CD-ROM SCSI-2 device
> > cd0: 5.000MB/s transfers (5.000MHz, offset 8)
> > cd0: cd present [329606 x 2048 byte records]
> > error 6: panic: cannot mount root (2)
> >
> > syncing disks... done
> > Automatic reboot in 15 seconds - press a key on the console to abort
> >
> > -------------- /etc/lilo.conf ---------------
> >
> > #
> > # general section
> > #
> > boot = /dev/hda
> > install = /boot/boot.b
> > message = /boot/message
> > prompt
> >
> > # wait 5 seconds (200 10ths) for user to select the entry to load
> > timeout = 50
> >
> > default = 3
> > vga = normal
> >
> > disk = /dev/hda
> >         bios = 0x80
> > disk = /dev/hdb
> >         bios = 0x81
> > disk = /dev/sda
> >         bios = 0x82
> >
> > other = /dev/hda1
> >         label = dos
> >         table = /dev/hda
> >
> > image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.5-15
> >         label = 1
> >         root = /dev/hdb1
> >         read-only
> >
> > image = /boot/vmlinuz
> >         label = 2
> >         root = /dev/hdb2
> >         read-only
> >
> > other = /dev/sda1
> >         label = 3
> >         table = /dev/sda
> >         loader = /boot/chain.b
> >
>
>
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