From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 7 11:08:36 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA22671 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 7 May 1996 11:08:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA22666 for ; Tue, 7 May 1996 11:08:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id KAA24012; Tue, 7 May 1996 10:59:20 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199605071759.KAA24012@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: PANIC: Cannot mount root To: jgenend@ibm.net (Jeff Genender) Date: Tue, 7 May 1996 10:59:20 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <318EE16E.76D6@ibm.net> from "Jeff Genender" at May 7, 96 00:36:46 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > After much reading and your help as well as others, there is no doubt > that my problem is the fact that the IDE drive is 'stealing' 0x80 and > therefore the run of hd(1,a)/kernel would work. But...it > doesn't...because FreeBSD is on my second SCSI drive; and > hd(2,a)/kernel as you probably already know will just force a pull from > sd(0,a). I can't really go into it but I have to keep the drives > configured this way for NT/95 issues (its a long story). So, I would > love to do some hacking of the code, but the only problem is, I need to > get into FreeBSD to do the hacking. And up until this point, this has > been an impossibility. Any guidance would be much appreciated (as > painless as possible of course - if it is possible). > > Also, I have been e-mailed that there are some fixes to this where one > can type (for example) 3:sd(1,a)/kernel which means 3rd drive, second on > the SCSI chain. If this is available, how can I get a boot floppy > (boot.flp) with this on it? > > Remember, at this point I can't even compile. You could download one of the "snap" versions and use the new boot code on their disk to get the "3:" syntax. I can't build older kernels, or even standard kernels at this point on my machines. All my machines have large amounts of modifications installed. Sorry. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.