From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 8 8:19:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from copland.udel.edu (copland.udel.edu [128.175.13.92]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DF5137B631 for ; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 08:19:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from papalia@UDel.Edu) Received: from copland.udel.edu (copland.udel.edu [128.175.13.92]) by copland.udel.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA02516; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 11:19:39 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 11:19:39 -0500 (EST) From: John To: "H. Jared Agnew" Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: changing drives In-Reply-To: <200003081452.JAA06183@mba.dgsys.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Config : > One 450M IDE > One 9.1G USCSI2 > > Problem : > I just added the 9.1G drive to the system. I am fairly sure that boot > loader could boot the 9.1G drive as it gives me the option to boot from > it. I can not however figure out how to make the 9.1G drive bootable. I > tried using (freebsd's) fdisk to set the first partition active, I also > installed my kernel on the partition. I think what it comes down to > is the boot straping, but I have searched the mail archives and can't > find any posts with my situation. You have to do a few things to make your SCSI dive bootable: 1) Make sure that your BIOS allows booting off a SCSI device. If not, I believe you'll have to disconnect the IDE drive to make it work (someone check me on this). 2) If you SCSI card has an on-board BIOS (like the Adaptec 2940UW or similar), make sure that you have it configured to allow a boot device, and set that to scsi id 0. 3) Make sure your scsi drive is set to id0. Check all that, and see where we go from there. --John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message