From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 11 17:13:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA24379 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 11 Mar 1998 17:13:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from xcf.berkeley.edu (scam.XCF.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.43.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA24366 for ; Wed, 11 Mar 1998 17:12:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grady@scam.XCF.Berkeley.EDU) From: grady@scam.XCF.Berkeley.EDU Message-Id: <199803120112.RAA24366@hub.freebsd.org> Received: (qmail 11101 invoked from network); 12 Mar 1998 01:01:00 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO scam.XCF.Berkeley.EDU) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 12 Mar 1998 01:01:00 -0000 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Booting off sd3s2a/OSBS problem MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <11089.889664459.1@scam.XCF.Berkeley.EDU> Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 17:01:00 -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I just installed a new drive on my machine, a 9-gig SCSI. Its SCSI id leads it to be recognized as sd3 by FreeBSD. I'm using two slices, the first for DOS, the second for FreeBSD. So the root partition is on /dev/sd3s2a. Unfortunately, I can't boot off that device. I've tried two different ways. The first is to set the boot manager to boot that partition, but for some reason the boot manager I've got installed on SCSI0 (OSBS) won't update the boot information any more (it gives me a "can't write to disk"). The second is to boot directly off the boot manager I installed on the new drive (or alternatively, to boot off the old FreeBSD2.1.0 boot block on SCSI1). But I can't figure out what path to give to the kernel. I tried: sd(3,a) sd(3,b) 3:sd(1,a) and a few other choices. dmesg output: sd0(ahc0:0:0): Direct-Access 516MB (1057616 512 byte sectors) (ahc0:2:0): "TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-5401TA 3605" type 5 removable SCSI 2 cd0(ahc0:2:0): CD-ROM can't get the size (ahc0:3:0): "QUANTUM LIGHTNING 730S 241E" type 0 fixed SCSI 2 sd1(ahc0:3:0): Direct-Access 699MB (1431760 512 byte sectors) (ahc0:4:0): "iomega jaz 1GB G.60" type 0 removable SCSI 2 sd2(ahc0:4:0): Direct-Access sd2(ahc0:4:0): ILLEGAL REQUEST asc:24,0 Invalid field in CDB sd2 could not mode sense (4). Using ficticious geometry 1021MB (2091050 512 byte sectors) (ahc0:6:0): "MICROP 3387NS x43h" type 0 fixed SCSI 2 sd3(ahc0:6:0): Direct-Access 8296MB (16992188 512 byte sectors) I suspect the right answer is to get OSBS working (I believe the executable I have is OSBS20B8, which I assume indicates the version). I can't edit the boot menu in any way right now, not even to delete an obsolete entry. Any help would be appreciated. - -- Steven "And so he says, I don't like the cut of your jib. And I go, I says, it's the only jib I got, baby!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message