Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 13:04:49 +0200 (SAT) From: Robert Nordier <rnordier@nordier.com> To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Cc: karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BETA problems... Message-ID: <199810131104.NAA03092@ceia.nordier.com> In-Reply-To: <199810130120.SAA01157@dingo.cdrom.com> from Mike Smith at "Oct 12, 98 06:20:39 pm"
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Mike Smith wrote: > > I just tried to install the newest BETA on current.freebsd.org on a > > friend's computer. It worked, let's say, less then satisfactory. Somehow > > the installation got messed up, but the main problem was that he had two > > IDE drives. Both set to master, on separate comntrollers. On wd0 he had > > Window and on wd2 he wanted FreeBSD... That, however, was not much to > > FreeBSD's liking. > > > > At the "boot:" prompt, it would find the kernel at bios unit 1, but for > > some inane reason it fails to recognize that the disk is NOT wd1, but wd2. > > So you would manually have to enter "1:wd(2,a)kernel" or it would assume > > "1:wd(1,a)kernel", and panic when trying to mount root. Why is this, and > > shouldn't it be fixed? > > > > _Is_ it fixed in new boot code, perhaps? > > No. It's almost impossible to get the distinction right. > > The difficulty lies in working out which physical drives the BIOS > numbers correspond to. Unless you have a *very* new system, there is > simply no way to know that the BIOS drive 0x81 is in fact wd2. In > order for this to work, the user has to provide the missing data, > either by typing 1:wd(2a)kernel every time (tedious) or putting it in > /boot.config. Any reason we can't pick this up from d_typename? 00000200 57 45 56 82 05 00 00 00 77 64 30 73 32 00 00 00 |WEV.....wd0s2...| This is on my list of things to test in the new boot2. -- Robert Nordier To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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