From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 25 17:19:50 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA17423 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 25 May 1997 17:19:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from train.tgci.com ([205.185.169.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id RAA17418 for ; Sun, 25 May 1997 17:19:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from emilyd ([206.250.85.68]) by train.tgci.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id RAA28636 for ; Sun, 25 May 1997 17:50:51 -0700 Message-Id: <199705260050.RAA28636@train.tgci.com> Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "Riley J. McIntire" To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Sun, 25 May 1997 17:18:56 +0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: wd0/sd0 can't boot from scsi drive Reply-to: chaos@tgci.com Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v2.42a) Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Just installed 2.2.2-release on the only scsi drive in my system--disabled the ide controller in cmos from previous experience. Anyway, install goes ok, boots ok. Enabled the ide drive, which has 2.1.7 on it. Gets the boot prompt F1 -DOS, F2-2.1.7 and F5 2nd DISK. Press F5 and get "F?". I've seen this before, and done the fixes recommended by assuming this is a geometry problem. It doesn't seem to be. Used booteasy 2 beta (8?). No help. When F2 is pressed (ide drive 2.1.7) at the boot prompt I type in sd(0,a)/kernel and it boots wd(0,a)/kernel with no errors. That is it *seems* to take the arguement "sd(0,a)" but runs wd(0,a) and it ends up running 2.1.7, not 2.2.2-R. This isn't a show stopper, but I'm curious and I'd *really* like to boot the scsi disk with the ide disk in the system. Is there a reason I can't? os-bs (osbs20b8.exe) locks up when run on the dos partition on the ide disk. Booteasy seems to configure ok, but craps out under pressure! :) tia, Riley