Date: Wed, 5 May 1999 01:30:32 -0400 (EDT) From: spork <spork@super-g.com> To: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@plutotech.com> Cc: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: device assignment Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9905050128570.2001-100000@super-g.inch.com> In-Reply-To: <199904292001.OAA78007@panzer.plutotech.com>
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Sorry for the late reply... I was trying to see if the 7890 problem varied if I booted off the card rather than the builtin chipset. No difference... still hangs. Thanks, Charles On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > FreeBSD's device assignment is generally determined by probe order. PCI > devices are probed in ascending order, regardless of what order the BIOS > probes things in. (Note that the probe order is a bit different now in > -current for machines with more than one PCI bus. Doug Rabson said that > he's planning on writing code that will at least allow the old probing > behavior.) > > You need to do the following in the loader to get things to work, assuming > that the drive you want to boot off of is "da1": > > set root_disk_unit=1 > > Then in your fstab, make sure that your root filesystem, etc., reference > da1, not da0. > > Ken > -- > Kenneth Merry > ken@plutotech.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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