Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 17:59:33 +0200 (CEST) From: kim@benn.dk To: Stephen Cooper <stephen.cooper@alphawest.com.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: FreeBSD attempting to boot off wrong SCSI device Message-ID: <XFMail.971016180541.kim@benn.dk> In-Reply-To: <3445858C.E347CACF@alphawest.com.au>
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On 16-Oct-97 Stephen Cooper wrote:
>The boot.config file did not appear to help, I put the line
>
>1:sd(0,a)kernel
>
>in the file and placed the file in / with the permissions 644 root.wheel.
>
>The machine still thinks it is booting off 1:sd(1,a)kernel, but as I have said
>I
>can type the line in at boot: and it will boot OK, but it would be very useful
>to
>us to have it boot automatically.
>
>I have also tried putting the following in the kernel config file.
>
>"config kernel root on sd0
>
>controller scbus0 at ahc0
>
>device sd0 at scbus0 target 0 unit 0"
>
>and rebuilt the kernel.
>
>My configuration is
>
>Disk 1: 2GB IDE ("wd0") Windows NT
>Disk 2: 500MB Seagate SCSI (sd0) on PCI Adaptec SCSI controller (ahc0) with
>FreeBSD
>
Hi Stephen
My setup is like yours:
Disk 1: 2GB IDE
Disk 2: 1GB SCSI
Take a look on my /boot.config
> more /boot.config
1:sd(0,a)/kernel
^
^
^
I think you miss the slash after the last ")"
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Date: 16-Oct-97
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