Date: Wed, 25 Oct 1995 17:32:26 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: stable@freebsd.org, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Oct 20 snap install... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951025172608.254F@fieber-john.campusview.indiana.edu> In-Reply-To: <29769.814653849@time.cdrom.com>
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On Wed, 25 Oct 1995, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > Fine, After I figured out that I had to enable the host adapter BIOS on > > my Adaptec 1542C, booteasy allowed me to select the second disk for > > booting. However, the kernel was convinced that it was booting from sd1, > > not sd0 and thus paniced when it tried to mount its root filesystem. > > Hmmmmm. That's interesting. Did you see both wd0 and sd0 in the > disks menu when you were installing it? Just curious, 'cause I've not > had the chance to test that particular scenario before. Yes. I only selected sd0 for the install, and I did it "express". > Not enough room to document them there.. We're at the wall for bytes > as it is.. :-( :( I'm not a kernel hacker, but is there any chance some of their functionality could be added/moved to userconfig. If not, possible a little documentation could go there. It would be better than none. > > * Can I set things up so I can boot without typing -r every time? > > You could re-write your bootblocks with an implicit assumption of > sd1, I guess. You mean sd0? Its the kernel is looking for the root on sd1, it *should* look on sd0. > Still, I have no idea why this thing thinks it's sd1! > That makes simply *no sense* for a drive 0 on your Adaptec! It's not > like the IDE drive is supposed to bump the SCSI drive count! :-) It (correctly) comes up as sd0 in the probe. > It undoes everything, I'm afraid. I could make a more intelligent > undo, but that's going to have to wait for 2.2.. :-( Then in the meantime it should bounce the user back to the beginning menu. As I said, I don't recall where I got bounced, but it wasn't somewhere appropriate. -john == jfieber@indiana.edu =========================================== == http://fieber-john.campusview.indiana.edu/~jfieber ============
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