From owner-freebsd-scsi Tue May 4 22:31: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from super-g.inch.com (super-g.com [207.240.140.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80BBC15B7F for ; Tue, 4 May 1999 22:31:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from spork@super-g.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by super-g.inch.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id BAA13327; Wed, 5 May 1999 01:30:32 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 5 May 1999 01:30:32 -0400 (EDT) From: spork X-Sender: spork@super-g.inch.com To: "Kenneth D. Merry" Cc: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: device assignment In-Reply-To: <199904292001.OAA78007@panzer.plutotech.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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