From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 4 18:07:14 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA15681 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 4 Apr 1997 18:07:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from denali.opentv.com ([208.209.47.239]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA15673 for ; Fri, 4 Apr 1997 18:06:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from opentv.com (glacier.opentv.com [10.64.0.17]) by denali.opentv.com (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id QAA12749 for ; Fri, 4 Apr 1997 16:09:16 -0500 Received: from carrot.opentv.com by opentv.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id SAA16678; Fri, 4 Apr 1997 18:08:01 -0800 Received: by carrot.opentv.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id SAA01698; Fri, 4 Apr 1997 18:07:26 -0800 Date: Fri, 4 Apr 1997 18:07:25 -0800 (PST) From: Gilles Boccon-Gibod To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: HELP ! (boot info) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I have a problem: I installed FreeBSD on my 2nd SCSI drive in a machine that has 2 IDE and 2 SCSI drive. I use LILO or the IBM OS Loader to boot from the SCSI drive. At this point, I get the FreeBSD boot prompt. If I press enter, it boots the kernel, and then it fails to mount the / partition, because it thinks it is on sd3a, where in fact it is on sd1a To get it to work, I have to enter: 3:sd(1,a) at the boot prompt. The question is: why does it get confused about the ID of the disk it booted from (it think it booted from sd(3,a) ), and how can I modify something so that it will do the right thing without me having to enter '3:sd(1,a)' at the boot prompt every time I want to boot ? PS: I have the same problem with NetBSD... PS2: the machine has an ASUS P55T2P4 motherboard with an NCR SCSI conroler (and SCSI BIOS). Thanks for any info. ======================================================================== / ) ( \ Oooo. |Gilles Boccon-Gibod | gilles@opentv.com .oooO / / \ \ ( ) |3401-A Hillview Avenue | bok@bok.net ( ) / ( ) \ ) / |Palo Alto, CA 94304 | +1 415 849 5583 \ ( ( ) ( ) (_/ |------------------------------------------ \_) oooO0 0Oooo | Hop, et Hop, et Hop, et dans le baba. ========================================================================