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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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Subject: Re: Booting off of second disk
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On Wed, 27 Aug 1997, spork wrote:

> The box is a Compaq ProSignia 486/66 with built-in SCSI that FBSD does not
> recognize.  I had an extra Adaptec EISA laying around, so I used that and
> a very old Seagate 1G for the FBSD install.  There is still a 300-ish meg
> SCSI drive (weird cabling) that has DOS on it.

Check.

> The install went fine, and I can boot via floppy by typing in: 
> 
> boot:1:sd(0,a)
> 
> All is well until a reboot.  I tried installing booteasy tonite, and it
> does work, but it sees two drives where FBSD sees one and apparently some
> of the info it passes to the kernel convinces the kernel that FBSD resides
> on sd1.  The boot will fail with a panic when the kernel tries to mount
> the nonexistant sd1a as root.  Again, if I type the same incantation after
> booteasy gets the kernel going, all is well.

You'll need to rebuild your kernel and wire down the FreeBSD boot disk as
sd0.  See /sys/i386/conf/LINT for instructions.

> BTW- I am *very* happy with the performance of the OS on a 486/66 with
> only 8 megs.  It's simply amazing compared to when it had NT 3.51...

Yeah, no gigantic GUI that's an integral part of the OS to lug around. :)

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