Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 21:42:13 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: darrenr@cyber.com.au (Darren Reed) Cc: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: booting from wd2. Message-ID: <199602222042.VAA26501@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199602221402.BAA05617@plum.cyber.com.au> from "Darren Reed" at Feb 23, 96 01:02:54 am
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As Darren Reed wrote: > > > This is an interesting exercise, when you have wd0 and wd2... > has this been fixed yet ? No, the BIOS hasn't been fixed yet to provide a unique numbering scheme for disks. And it hasn't been fixed neither to properly return the information about its drive numbering/assignment at a known place. Mixtures of ST-506 and SCSI drives come even more interesting. :) You can force FreeBSD do not even consider a wd1 as the second disk of the first controller, so it can use the first disk of the second controller as wd1. The GENERIC kernel isn't configured this way however. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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