From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 20 07:14:35 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA17115 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 20 Jul 1996 07:14:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hera.cwi.nl (hera.cwi.nl [192.16.191.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA17109 for ; Sat, 20 Jul 1996 07:14:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zeus.cwi.nl by hera.cwi.nl with SMTP id ; Sat, 20 Jul 1996 16:14:16 +0200 Received: by zeus-184.cwi.nl id ; Sat, 20 Jul 1996 16:14:28 +0200 Date: Sat, 20 Jul 1996 16:14:28 +0200 From: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl Message-Id: <9607201414.AA16856=aeb@zeus-184.cwi.nl> To: bde@zeta.org.au Subject: Re: installation fails Cc: questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> 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