Date: Sat, 27 Dec 1997 22:44:19 -0600 From: "Kris Kirby, KE4AHR" <kris@ninbsdbox.dyn.ml.org> To: Studded <Studded@dal.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IDE and SCSI drives not playing well together Message-ID: <34A5D923.438A6838@ninbsdbox.dyn.ml.org> References: <34A5A784.8843CB4B@dal.net>
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Studded wrote: > > IDE: > Boot Manager or OS-BS (According to the adaptec book, if I have an IDE > drive on the system, it will always be the boot drive.) And correctly so. > So I install FreeBSD just fine, tell it to put an MBR on the scsi disk > (although I'm pretty sure I tried it both with and without), > installation completes without erros. My problem is that both Boot > Manager and OS-BS beta tell me that I can't boot the FreeBSD system I've > got on the SCSI disk. I've twiddled all the settings on the adapter, so > it SHOULD be bootable. Boot Manager tells me: "Selected partition is not > formatted, hit any key." OS-BS tells me "No operating system." I've > tried OS/2 fdisk, FreeBSD "fdisk" from sysinstall, even DOS fdisk (yuck > :). I've searched the archives, and although there are numerous posts of > questions similar to mine, there are not any real answers. Dumb Question: Have you tried using BootEasy? The boot manager for FBSD? Use /stand/sysinstall to install it. Works for one or two drives. Will not give drive 2 as an option if there are three drives in the system. Works fine for me if I pull an HD. I have three. Install it on both wd0 and sd0. > The one thing in the archives that works is booting the freebsd system > on the IDE disk, and telling it to run the kernel on the scsi disk. This > works (in the sense that the freebsd installation on the scsi drive Now if someone would add an option into the kernel config file where we could wire down what the default boot is going to be, i.e.: 1:sd(1,a):/kernel or 0:wd(0,a):/kernel. Hint! Hint! Or some way of telling that little FBSD Boot: screen. I hope you get the idea. -- Kris Kirby <kris@airnet.net> ------------------------------------------- A Person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it. -- Kay, in MiB, copyright Sony Pictures Imageworks
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