Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 12:14:57 -0800 (PST) From: "Craig Shaver" <craig@ProGroup.COM> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Tekram SCSI won't boot? Message-ID: <199611132014.MAA02530@seabass.progroup.com> In-Reply-To: <Mutt.19961213033728.zach@bedrock.gaffaneys.com> from "Zach Heilig" at Dec 13, 96 03:37:28 am
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> > I just bought a Tekram DC390F, and after installing it, it refuses to > boot from my SCSI disk. If I boot from the installation floppy, and > run the fixit disk, I can mount the filesystems Ok, but that's hardly > useful. > > It will not work if I try to make the FreeBSD boot loader boot from > the SCSI drive either (with the sd(0,a)/kernel .. trick). > > I read in the manual that if the drive wasn't formatted by this > controller, that it might not be recognized... but I can mount the > filesystems while using that controller, so that doesn't seem to be > the problem (or is it?). > > I tried booting with an old MS-DOS disk, and it doesn't recognize the > disk either (with fdisk). > > I wonder if there is something else that I've forgotten to do? > > I sure hope I don't have to backup the filesystems and re-format... > (but, if that's what I've got to do, that's what I'll do...) > > I'm currently back to using the sea0 driver, so I really want to get > the Tekram controller working properly. I have one of these too. It does bios translations for the boot disk (and possibly others). You will have to either use another disk as boot and mount the drive as a non-boot disk, or you will have to backup and clean format and install fresh. What version of FreeBSD are you using? What is the sea0 driver for? > > -- > Zach Heilig (zach@blizzard.gaffaneys.com) | ALL unsolicited commercial email > Support bacteria -- it's the | is unwelcome. I avoid dealing > only culture some people have! | with companies that email ads. > -- Craig Shaver (craig@progroup.com) (415)390-0654 Productivity Group POB 60458 Sunnyvale, CA 94088
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