Date: Sat, 20 Jul 1996 16:14:28 +0200 From: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl To: bde@zeta.org.au Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: installation fails Message-ID: <9607201414.AA16856=aeb@zeus-184.cwi.nl>
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>> But now I find that I have no means to boot this installed system!
The existing one (whatever is used to boot all those disks) might work.
I use OS/2 BM and LILO. Both boot only from drives that the BIOS
can access, that is in my case, from drives 0 and 1.
If this doesn't work, then any bootable disk, including the install
floppy, can be used to boot almost any disk: hit the space bar to make
the boot pause, then stare at the prompt to figure out or remind
yourself of the syntax, then type the destination, which should look
something like 5:sd(2,a)/kernel for the BIOS drive 5 of 0-5 and SCSI
drive 2 of 0-2.
This fails for the same reason. The BIOS does not know about
SCSI disks, so I have to boot a kernel from floppy or from
IDE disk 0 or 1 and tell that kernel where its root filesystem is.
For Linux one uses a command line parameter "root=/dev/sdc1"
to say that it must mount the first partition of the 3rd SCSI disk
as root filesystem. But what do I say to the FreeBSD kernel?
Andries
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