From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 1 23:31:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA14355 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 1 Apr 1998 23:31:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from eiche.pk.she.de (eiche.pk.she.de [193.98.90.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA14267 for ; Wed, 1 Apr 1998 23:31:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from christoph.sold@pk.she.de) Received: from [194.45.219.71] (ph071.pk.she.de [194.45.219.71]) by eiche.pk.she.de (8.8.8/8.7.6) with ESMTP id JAA13979 for ; Thu, 2 Apr 1998 09:30:52 +0200 X-Sender: pu071@eiche.pk.she.de Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1998 09:21:35 +0200 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Christoph Sold Subject: BootEasy does not boot from the right disk (2.2.5-RELEASE) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG While installing FBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE from the Walnut Creek CDROMs onto my new hd, I noticed some problems inside the installation process. Since those are completely unrelated, I'll post a few messages. Apologies for the inconvenience. Relevant Hardware (from probing during first successful boot): One device on SCSI: ncr0 rev 17 int a irq 11 on pci0:4 (ncr0:1:0): "PHILIPS PCA80SC V3-0" type 5 removeable SCSI 2 CD-ROM drive: cd0: CD-ROM, asynchronous Two IDE controllers with one hard disk each: wdc0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14 on isa wdc0: unit 0 (wd0): wd0: 612MB (1253952 sectors), 1244 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S wdc1 at 0x170-0x17f irq 15 on isa wdc1: unit 0 (wd2): wd2: 2014MB (4124736 sectors), 4092 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S On the Quantum wd0 on the primary master, there is a small emergency DOS partition, as well as FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE. I just received the Seagate 2.1GB HD and FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE CD-ROMs, so I put the HD into the system, verified it was there using DOS 6.22 fdisk, made the disk completely empty (no partitions on it) and did a novice installation off FBSD 2.2.5-release CD-ROM, doing the "dangerously dedicated" no-bootsector installation. The installation completed, I did the obligatory restart. Yep, there was the F5 selection for another disk; so hop over to the new hd containing the just installed FBSD 2.2.5 using the F5 selection. here it comes: > [F5] >> FreeBSD BOOT @ 0x10000: 640/31744 k of memory, internal console Boot default: 1:wd(1,a)kernel ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ THIS IS WRONG! There is no primary slave IDE disk installed. The kernel resides on "1:wd(2,a)/kernel", the secondary master. So obviously there is a problem within the installation process, which should be fixed for the next release (3.0, 2.2.6 is already out I heard). In the meantime, how do I change the default boot string for my new HD? Thanks for any help -Christoph Sold ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Christoph Sold, Am Bahnweiher 13, 67105 Schifferstadt, Germany; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message