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Date:      Fri, 12 Jan 2007 13:12:49 -0800
From:      Jo Rhett <jrhett@svcolo.com>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: any real documentation of the boot2 prompt?
Message-ID:  <730921C3-A2DD-43AA-87BA-E3063C0FF75F@svcolo.com>
In-Reply-To: <200701121312.01585.jhb@freebsd.org>
References:  <E22808FA-5C42-443E-AA32-0DA3247077AC@svcolo.com> <200701121216.25185.jhb@freebsd.org> <1D170045-5A43-4C93-AFDC-19C44CEDB0F5@svcolo.com> <200701121312.01585.jhb@freebsd.org>

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On Jan 12, 2007, at 10:12 AM, John Baldwin wrote:
>> Like I mentioned before, lsdev only showed me a single drive.
>
> Then the 3ware BIOS doesn't let the boot software see your second  
> drive,
> so there's no way to load /boot/loader off that drive since boot2 and
> the loader both rely on the BIOS to talk to drives.  End of story.

Okay, that's what I suspected.  So booting from CD and using "lsdev"  
at the loader prompt really is the best/only way to confirm what the  
BIOS provides?

And thanks for taking the time to answer all of this, I deeply  
appreciate it.

-- 
Jo Rhett
senior geek
Silicon Valley Colocation







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