Date: Sat, 24 Aug 1996 11:48:37 +0200 (MET DST) From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> To: tege@matematik.su.se (Torbjorn Granlund) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting from sd0 when wd0 is also present Message-ID: <199608240948.LAA29528@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <199608232316.BAA24325@insanus.matematik.su.se> from Torbjorn Granlund at "Aug 24, 96 01:16:27 am"
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[ moved to -questions] > I got a cheap IDE drive for use as a DOS/Windoze disk. > Thus, I can use the entire SCSI disk for FreeBSD. > > Unfortunately, this makes autoboot fail, with a message that reads something > like "Unable to change root to sd1". The SCSI drive is, of course, sd0. > But it seems that the FreeBSD boot loader incorrectly counts wd0 as if it > were the first SCSI device in this case. > > To me, this seems like a bug. But maybe it is a feature...? Is there a > workaround (less get a dummy SCSI disk with a lower SCSI id :-) ? I cannot comment whether this is a bug or not. Maybe a flaw. Try to build a kernel with root on sd1 and see if that works. The same may apply for the swap device. > > I can get things to work in the way indicated by the text early in the boot > process, but such a manual boot method is not acceptable in the long run. > > I am using FreeBSD 2.1 and am now moving to 2.1.5. > > Torbjorn > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
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