From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Mar 2 22:54:11 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA05186 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 2 Mar 1997 22:54:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from shrimp.dataplex.net (shrimp.dataplex.net [208.2.87.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA05177 for ; Sun, 2 Mar 1997 22:54:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from [208.2.87.4] (cod.dataplex.net [208.2.87.4]) by shrimp.dataplex.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA00743 for ; Mon, 3 Mar 1997 00:54:22 -0600 (CST) X-Sender: rkw@shrimp.dataplex.net Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Mon, 3 Mar 1997 00:53:08 -0600 To: hackers@freebsd.org From: Richard Wackerbarth Subject: SCSI setup help !!! Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Well, I used to have good uptime also. Then a fan died. :-( Anyway, the long story greatly shortened. I didn't have ANY SCSI drives with bootable partitions. They were all too big for the BIOS. My wd HD was trashed to a point that I couldn't fix it from just the floppy. So I managed to get up on the floppy and mount an archive disk (just FreeBSD trees -- I have a whole grove of them). Between discarding and moving, I freed the whole 2G disk. OK. Time to see how the 2.1.7 Installer goes. Starts up just fine. I specify the one disk I want to use and proceed to partition it. Since I generally like "real" partitions, I decided on /dev/sd0a / ufs rw 1 1 /dev/sd0s2b none swap sw 0 0 /dev/sd0s2e /usr ufs rw 1 1 /dev/sd0s3e /var ufs rw 1 1 Everything seemed fine. It ask if I wanted to leave something to stay compatible. I said "yes". I also told it sd0s1a was bootable and everything seemed OK. However, when I try to reboot, I get told that I have no OS. I tried "disklabel -B sd0" and that did not help either. Suggestions?