Date: Mon, 3 Mar 1997 00:53:08 -0600 From: Richard Wackerbarth <rkw@dataplex.net> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: SCSI setup help !!! Message-ID: <l03010d07af4020b3180f@[208.2.87.4]>
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Well, I used to have good uptime also. Then a fan died. :-( Anyway, the long story greatly shortened. I didn't have ANY SCSI drives with bootable partitions. They were all too big for the BIOS. My wd HD was trashed to a point that I couldn't fix it from just the floppy. So I managed to get up on the floppy and mount an archive disk (just FreeBSD trees -- I have a whole grove of them). Between discarding and moving, I freed the whole 2G disk. OK. Time to see how the 2.1.7 Installer goes. Starts up just fine. I specify the one disk I want to use and proceed to partition it. Since I generally like "real" partitions, I decided on /dev/sd0a / ufs rw 1 1 /dev/sd0s2b none swap sw 0 0 /dev/sd0s2e /usr ufs rw 1 1 /dev/sd0s3e /var ufs rw 1 1 Everything seemed fine. It ask if I wanted to leave something to stay compatible. I said "yes". I also told it sd0s1a was bootable and everything seemed OK. However, when I try to reboot, I get told that I have no OS. I tried "disklabel -B sd0" and that did not help either. Suggestions?
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