From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon May 5 03:22:55 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id DAA16664 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 5 May 1997 03:22:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA16659 for ; Mon, 5 May 1997 03:22:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id TAA29329; Mon, 5 May 1997 19:52:42 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199705051022.TAA29329@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Installing FBSD on a second hard disk. In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19970505105622.00f7c688@mailhost.pavilion.co.uk> from John O'Farrell at "May 5, 97 10:56:22 am" To: john@o-farrell.com (John O'Farrell) Date: Mon, 5 May 1997 19:52:42 +0930 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, joe@pavilion.net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk John O'Farrell stands accused of saying: > Of course I tried using the bootstrap prompt, with the following result; (You didn't say this; how could I possibly have known?) > Error D:0X81 C:0 H:0 S:0 > Error D:0X81 C:0 H:0 S:0 > Error D:0X81 C:0 H:0 S:0 > > scrolling endlessly off the screen Ok. In this case, I think I must have missed something in your configuration. You have an IDE disk with your Windows stuff on it; do you have an IDE CDROM? Have you tried other BIOS offsets with the syntax X:sd(0,a)kernel where 'X' is some value 0, 1, 2, etc. ? It sounds like your BIOS is happy booting from the Jaz, there should be no reason why the bootstrap should be unhappy. What does the bootstrap print as its default? > >> What would be really cool is if I could could have a scsi disk with > >> freebsd on, which I could change the id on and still have freebsd find > >> it's root partition. You can. I do this regularly. > John O'Farrell -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[